Trying to recover QuickTime recording!

Search for Auto Save Information in Search tool there you can see the unsaved file -> right click ->show packages-> look for your unsaved document. Either me have faced same issue. Unable to find the long path in my directory. ( It differs from user to user) .Hope it helps.

It *may* be in a temp file, but for sure, if you closed the lid on the laptop and slept the machine before the recording sessions closed, the file will be truncated.

FIRST, you need to go get the program OnyX: http://www.titanium.free.fr/downloadonyx.php - you are going to use this to make the invisible tempfile folder visible.

Once you've gotten the correct version for your OS, launch it.

It will want to check your hard drive - just cancel through that - since you are only changing the Finder's visibility settings.

You'll get to the OnyX bar and it's this: (though not black, that's just my theme setting)

http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/MacForums/OnyXBar.jpg

and you select the Parameters option, that is third from the right. Once into that, you go to the Finder button, and down to the box where it says 'show hidden files and folders'.

http://home.comcast.net/~foodandart/MacForums/OnyXParameter.jpg

Check that. Right off the bat, the application will warn you to not have any other apps handling, files. If anything is running, stop them. The main thing is that there isn't anything happening with the Finder at this time. If everything's all set, apply the setting, the desktop and all your files will blink out and when they come back in, you will see ALL the system files in your computer.. DO NOT MESS WITH ANYTHING!

Go ONLY where you are suppposed to - there is a REAL reason that hidden files are hidden and you can blow your system out of existence if you mess around with those files.

Leave OnyX running and just minimize it - you'll be back to it in a few minutes.

Now go into your hard drive - at the root level - and you want to look for the /private/var/folders and inside you *should* find a file with .mov at the end of it.

This is the video file. Move it to the desktop.

(If you do not see it, that means the file is gone. As long as you haven't shut down since this happened, it should still be there.)

Once you've done this, go back into OnyX and un-check the 'show hidden files and folders' and it will do the blinky thing and you should be all set.

Good luck!

Deb.

Hi, found this post using a search and I wanted to help in case someone else comes across a similar problem because Debroah's post got me *close* but I was actually able to find the temporary recording in a different folder!

I'm using a late 2011 Macbook Pro with OS X 10.9.4

If you're screen recording fails after an extended period of time (2 and a half hours for me) DONT PANIC, and don't shut down QuickTime or your computer or put it to sleep! Mine gave me the error message "Cannot Capture" or something similar and I thought all hope was lost but using Debroahs advice above and information from around the web here's what you do.

Follow Debrahs post (about getting Onyx to show hidden files) up to where she tells you to go into your hard drive. Instead of looking for a "private/var/folders" go to /Users/[your name]/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave Information

and it is actually in the file "Unsaved QuickTime Player Document" (I think the extension is .qtpxcomposition). To get the move file right-click on the "Unsaved QuickTime Player Document" file and click "Show Package Contents". Inside you will (hopefully) find a Screen Recoding.mov file. This is your recording! Simply copy it and paste it to the desktop or wherever you want to save your video and rename it.

So that worked for me! Hopefully this can help someone who is stuck. Once again, this was using Mavericks OSX 10.9.4. Cheers!

Ok and wanted to update, after doing that I force-quitted Quicktime and reopened it and the saved recording automatically popped up. As the above poster noted it looks like you don't have to go searching through the hidden folders it should be there when you reopen (if its still there) but if you're paranoid like me you may want to go find it before you force quit.

Force quitting and reopening did not work for me (early mbp, QT7, yosemite 10.10.5)

For QT7, folders are /private/var/folders via the Go to Folder menu in the Finder. The whole file string for me was /private/var/folders/6b/zn_and a long string/T/TemporaryItems/

6b + the long z string are different for different people. T/TemporaryItems/ is the goldmine.

I found the draft in the hidden folders, but can't open it. Anyone with any ideas of how to open the file? TY!

You're the man...I force Closed Quicktime , Then Re-open the Quicktime and my record was right there....AMAZING!!!

Thanks a ton @ejt06002 this really helped me to find the Unsaved file.. Retrieved it

This was so incredibly helpful, thanks soooo much!!!