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How to retrieve Kazam video/screencast that did not save? Location of cached file?

Ask Ubuntu Asked by 5th Wheel on February 8, 2021

I’m on Ubuntu 14.04. I used Kazam to record a video of my desktop (a Hangouts chat) After I was done, I clicked “finish recording” and I did not get the pop-up asking me to rename and save file. So I hit “quit” , and still did not get the prompt. Now it seems the video is gone. I can’t find a Kazam folder on my file desktop, and it’s certainly not in video folder, but is it possible that it could be stored in a deep folder somewhere? I haven’t shut down my computer yet, hoping it’s somewhere temporarily cached, at least. I used Kazam yesterday, for this exact same purpose, and it worked perfectly. Perhaps because the screencast today was over an hour?
I’m not very familiar with Kazam. I just started using it last week.

EDIT:
It appears after much googling, that there are a number of bug reports concerning this exact behavior( no pop-up window, asking how to save) I still can’t find if there is a tmp file location that may have the video sitting somewhere. I’m trying to find if I can resurrect the file, before shutting down my computer, because I’m sure once I reboot, the possibility of saving it will be gone ( if not already)

One Answer

This worked for me:

  1. Download the perl script
  2. install ffmpeg
  3. try sudo for the perl command

VLC can't read the mp4 but youtube can upload and read it

Answered by lamidesbetes on February 8, 2021

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