QuickTime stops recording immediately after it begins recording

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QuickTime stops recording immediately after it begins recording

My QuickTime will let me set everything up to Screen Recordings, but then stops **immediately** after the little record icon appears on the upper bar. It shows no file, or anything like that to preview. It also tends to stop responding during Movie Recordings. I have not tried Audio Recordings.

My instinct is to reinstall it, but since it's baked into the OS, I don't think that I'm going to be able to do that. Any idea what I should do here?

I have checked all my privacy settings, and QuickTime has full permissions to camera and screen recording.

iMac Pro

Posted on Sep 28, 2020 10:18 AM

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karina184

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Oct 5, 2020 5:20 AM in response to kwillful

Greetings kwillful

It looks like you are having some trouble with QuickTime screen recordings stopping immediately after you start recording. We have a few steps to try and get that resolved. First check to make sure you have storage space available on your device: How to free up storage space on your Mac. After checking your storage try doing a screen recording in safe mode: How to use safe mode on your Mac. That will help see if the issue is related to any user settings.

We hope that helps! Take care.

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