Screen recording won't export

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!!!

Worked perfectly for me.

Thank you Lebruf for this great and perfect solution. Very kind of you to share this great fix.

Very LUCKY I happen to find this solution!!!!!

Sincerely!

Hope

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ! ! !

🙂

To reiterate the solution:

Problem: QT screen recording that will not save:

1. Go to:

The temp files are stored in -->
 Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave Information/

2. Copy that file (command d) and then move to desktop to ensure that it does not disappear once I closed out Quicktime without saving (remember, Quicktime wouldn't allow me to save OR export the file). (You will see and 'unsaved....' file there on this date.)

3. Once I had the file, I opened Get Info by right-clicking on the file and removed the file extension - in the field called: Name & Extension:’ box. (delete the .qtpxcomposition ) That changed the file into a folder.

Inside the folder was the full screen recording in .mov format. From there, I was able to open it in anything - Premiere, Handbrake, Camtasia, whatever

Apple please fix this bug!!!

I also had the same/similar issue. After a couple hours of editing (trimming/splitting) QuickTime didn't let me save my screencast. I tried exporting to Facebook and all I got in return was QT hanging up on me. I had to force quit it.

But before I force quit the application, thanks to LEBRUF (whoohoo!!!) I was able to locate the autosaved file and made 2 copies to my desktop. But in contrast to his good luck, after I changed the file extension of one of the copies, there was no .mov file waiting for me. However, I reopened QT again and was able to open the second copy of the autosaved file I made (it had a really long extension) and voila..... there was my screencast. I am currently trying to export to 480. I wonder if it will come out.....

Thanks LEBRUF!

Finally figured it out - apparently the Movies folder in my home directory had a weird permission set on it and things couldn't be written to it, which caused QuickTime to give a very descriptive message "The operation could not be completed" and saving to a different folder (or after fixing the permissions on Movies), worked.

This might be the solution to the bug. Apparently the Movies folder in my home directory had a weird permission set on it and things couldn't be written to it, which caused QuickTime to give a very descriptive message "The operation could not be completed" and saving to a different folder (or after fixing the permissions on Movies), worked.

I had same issue... no Save and no Export possible.

What I did was use the share icon in QuickTime control bar. It's the box w/arrow up all the way to the right, above the time remaining indicator.

The share option that worked for me was "Messages" and I "Messaged" the video to myself.

After it sent, I was able to right click, copy, and paste the video into folder.

Long *** name on that sucker!

Renamed and was then able to use at will.

FWIW, Ran into the "Operation is not supported" issue after attempting to split an MP4. Closed QT, reopened my MP4 and used trim instead to do the exact same thing and was able to export just fine.

I had the same problem, but albertmw's solution seems to work for me! Exporting right now in QT after using "Trim".

But can you manage multiple sub-sections that way?

Lets say I want to keep 8 segments and trim out 9. Doable?

(4 hours of recording, trimming way down.)

How Frustrating!!!

There goes my afternoon. Can't save, can't export, what a drag.

Ugh. Back to Windows and upside down iphone clips.