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#public
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when you finish a recording, it first shows up on the bottom right as a popup.
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a) if you don't do anything, the file will get placed in your ~/Desktop, or wherever else you configured
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b) but, if you start dragging the popup, and then fail to drag it somewhere (e.g. [[roam]] doesn't accept files bigger than 500M), then the file does not get saved to your configured location 😱
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fear not -- the file is still there, in your system, as long as you don't reboot before you save it.
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to find the location, you need to do another screen recording, stop it, take the popup and drag it into a web browser as a new tab.
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this way, you'll see some `file:///var/` filepath, e.g.:
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now, this is the path to the fake recording you just did. we need to find the path to the actual recording that "got lost".
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you need to take that path, shave off the `file://` (keep the 3rd `/` though), and also remove the last 2 segments - the "Screen Recording" filename, and the "NSIRD_screencaptureui_XYZABC" directory.
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should look something like this:
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now, open the terminal and type in `open ` and paste in the cleaned up path, e.g.
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now, you have the Finder open with some folders -- just gotta open each one and check if it contains the "lost" recording.
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it should! take the recording & copy it to some proper location, e.g. ~/Desktop
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done
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