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David Das Author

Level 1

84 points

Where are QuickTime Player's temp files stored?

Anyone have any idea where the temp files for QTP's recordings are kept?

Last night I did a screen capture recording that accidentally went for 5 hours (I meant it to last 1 hour), but fortunately there's plenty of hard drive space (>120GB). When I realized, I clicked stop recording, and QTP gave me the "Finishing Recording" progress bar (but it doesn't show me any percentage completed...it just keeps rolling).

Now -- 12 hours later -- it's still going -- so I'm concerned that it's hung and I may have lost the video data, which is irreplaceable.

Does anyone know where QTP might store its temporary files so I can go looking for the raw data?

I checked Users/Library/Caches/QuickTime but it's not there.

I'm on OS 10.7.4.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Sep 13, 2012 11:44 AM

18 replies

NiqueXyZ

Level 1

8 points

Apr 27, 2016 7:41 PM in response to David Das

Thanks, I tried the trial version, it's great and all but no way is this app worth anything near 100 bucks.

Just my opinion, I get that 🙂

Anyway...Tried to make a symbolic link to change QuickTime's "Autosave Information" folder to an external drive...No dice.

Sandbox error, kernel denies it 😟

4/27/16 10:35:13.000 PM kernel[0]: Sandbox: QuickTime Player(1773) deny(1) file-write-create /Volumes/LaCie/QuickTime/Unsaved QuickTime Player Document.qtpxcomposition

I can NOT believe that there may be no way around this...This is just so foolish.

Who would make a video application with no possible way to change the scratch location!?

I'm going to try some other things before I give up completely...there MUST be a way around thissss

Jon Walker

Level 6

19,473 points

Apr 29, 2016 10:43 AM in response to NiqueXyZ

Thanks, I tried the trial version, it's great and all but no way is this app worth anything near 100 bucks.

There are other apps available if you don't need or want all of ScreenFlow's "top-of-the-line bells and whistles." Araelium's ScreenFlick is available for only $29 and retains advanced audio mixing, a mini editor, and user designated storage target while Screeny (available free in the App Store) is essentially a QT X-like recording app but with a user selectable scratch storage preference. I use all three at various times dependent on the specific needs of a particular project. Each has its own niche.

Feb 10, 2017 2:55 PM in response to Jacand

You just saved a couple hours of footage of my dying father. Thank you.

Where are QuickTime Player's temp files stored?