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Tim Murray2 Author

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Deleting voice memos from Library's com.apple.voicememos/Recordings

The m4a files and waveform files in

Library/Application Support/com.apple.voicememos/Recordings

only increase in number. I have two iPads, one iPhone, and one MBPro. I can make sure all files are deleted from Voice Memos on all devices, yet they are not removed from the Recordings folder.

I could manually delete them from time to time, but I don't want to break Voice Memo's function and syncing, which otherwise works fine. Non-audio files and folders are:

CloudRecordings.db
CloudRecordings.db-shm
CloudRecordings.db-wal
Recordings.db
Recordings.db-shm
Recordings.db-wal. [zero bytes]
20220306 110359.composition [folder]
- fragments [folder, empty]
- manifest.plist. [XML contains a reference to an m4a & waveform still there]
ckAssetFiles [folder, empty]

I have no files I want to keep, so I could delete the entire folder (if it didn't break anything).

Any ideas?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.2

Posted on Mar 8, 2022 11:49 AM

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Tim Murray2 Author

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114 points

Posted on Mar 8, 2022 12:25 PM

Never mind: It was "time", meaning it took two hours. Quite longer than I would have thought, but anyway, it's okay.

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