Photo booth videos are saving as corrupted/blank files

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Photo booth videos are saving as corrupted/blank files

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If I record a video on my mac photo booth that surpasses 3 or 4 minutes it saves as an empty video. 0:00 seconds and I'm unable to play it. This began happening after I updated to MacOS Monterey. I have put my computer into safe mode, changed, users, restarted, deleted photobooth library and made a new one etc. Any help would be great. I've attached a photo as an example.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Sep 15, 2023 2:53 AM

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Sep 15, 2023 3:02 AM in response to ErikPerik

I was able to recover a large part of my corrupt file by using untrunc run through Docker.

untrunc works by taking a "good" file and remaking the corrupt file based on the good files format.

Basically by following these instructions:

Export the corrupt file to a known location, rename it to "corrupt.mov"
Film a new short video that isn't corrupt, export that as well, call it "good.mov" in the same folder
Open Terminal, cd into the directory where you exported the file.

cd ~/corrupt-folder-location

Run "untrunc" using Docker:

docker run -v $(pwd):/video -it synctree/untrunc /video/good.mov /video/corrupt.mov

The resulting file: corrupt.mov_fixed.mp4 worked to play in VLC but not QuickTime.

This actually restored 10 minutes of my 11 minute long recording, so it might help to restore some peoples files.

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