Mountain Lion - QuickTime Player X -- What happened to the ability "to select what location (on your Mac) to save your screen recording when finished"

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Mountain Lion - QuickTime Player X -- What happened to the ability "to select what location (on your Mac) to save your screen recording when finished"

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While the default behavior (file is saved locally in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave information/Unsaved QuickTime Player Document.qtpxcomposition) seems to work fine for users with mobile home directories, users with network home directories are unable to record on Mountain Lion machines.

I believe that by changing the default save location to a local writable space, we could avoid the issue, but the option to change the default save location seems to be missing.

Posted on Mar 19, 2013 12:11 PM

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Barney-15E

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Mar 19, 2013 6:48 PM in response to Micmac3

You just Export it and save it wherever you'd like, or you can "Share" it to various video sites or iMovie as a clip.

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Mar 20, 2013 9:19 AM in response to Barney-15E

Unfortunately, users with network home spaces can't begin recording, so we need the 'missing' option to set the destination BEFORE recording. I should mention that the network home directories in question are on an NFS volume.

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Mar 20, 2013 11:41 AM in response to Micmac3

Mar 19 10:00:18 machinename QuickTime Player[1061]: -[NSRemoteSavePanel _invalidatePBOXRemotePanelSession] : No reply from synchronous invalidation request. Cleaning up anyway.

Mar 19 10:00:42 machinename QuickTime Player[1061]: -[NSPersistentUIManager writeWindowSnapshot:length:width:height:bytesPerRow:toFile:inDirectory:encrypti ngWithKey:uuid:checksum:isUserWaitingImpatientlyForThisThingToFinish:]: write(fd, buffer, amountEncrypted) failed on line 2811: No such file or directory

Mar 19 10:00:59 machinename QuickTime Player[1061]: -[NSAlert alertWithError:] called with nil NSError. A generic error message will be displayed, but the user deserves better.

Mar 19 10:01:54 machinename QuickTime Player[1061]: -[NSAlert alertWithError:] called with nil NSError. A generic error message will be displayed, but the user deserves better.

Mar 19 10:01:56 machinename com.apple.launchd.peruser.2404[711] ([0x0-0x6a06a].com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX[1061]): Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault: 11

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Barney-15E

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Mar 20, 2013 4:06 PM in response to Micmac3

Does this path, or any part of it exist?

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave information/

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Mar 20, 2013 4:30 PM in response to Barney-15E

Yes, the path exists, but the directory is empty.

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Barney-15E

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Mar 20, 2013 4:35 PM in response to Micmac3

Perhaps it cannot write to that directory for some reason.

You might be able to create a symbolic link, replacing ../Autosave information/ and point it to somewhere on the user's Mac or an external device.

I have no way of testing it, so I can't say if it will work.

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Apr 16, 2014 9:17 PM in response to Barney-15E

You need to specify where to save it after the recording is made. Click the stop recording button on the menu bar top right. The File>Save and navigate.

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Apr 19, 2014 4:59 PM in response to boyd596

Do you know if there is a way to change the autosave location to be on an external hard drive to make sure memory won't run out in the middle of a long recording? I can't tell how much data a 3.5 hour recoding with audio through Soundflower for example would take. Cheers!

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