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Files being written to 'ghost' directory, and not one specifed!
Hi folks, bare with me, may be confusing. I wrote about this several years ago, and then actually found the fix, now forgotten.
I had to change some path settings recently, and left the naming scheme to yy/mm/dd. However, the path settings for my files are not where they are to be written now (c:\camstudio). I have searched relentlessly, even via DOS, to track down these files, numerous sub-dirs, dates, hidden files, etc.., temp files, etc.. Any ideas? I just can't remember the solution previously. No temp sub-directories are holding these...ugh..nothing I can find, though I do know they MUST be there. Everyone's o/s, directory structure, PC, etc.. is different, but I do remember someone seeing the directory being written to while the files were being compressed.
Terry, do you have any old correspondence from about 2 years ago still, under name Morgandy, where I posted the fix I found?
Note, I quickly changed my default directory back to c:\camstudio, and am again naming the files when they are written.
Thanks for any suggestions!
I had to change some path settings recently, and left the naming scheme to yy/mm/dd. However, the path settings for my files are not where they are to be written now (c:\camstudio). I have searched relentlessly, even via DOS, to track down these files, numerous sub-dirs, dates, hidden files, etc.., temp files, etc.. Any ideas? I just can't remember the solution previously. No temp sub-directories are holding these...ugh..nothing I can find, though I do know they MUST be there. Everyone's o/s, directory structure, PC, etc.. is different, but I do remember someone seeing the directory being written to while the files were being compressed.
Terry, do you have any old correspondence from about 2 years ago still, under name Morgandy, where I posted the fix I found?
Note, I quickly changed my default directory back to c:\camstudio, and am again naming the files when they are written.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Comments
Usually if you do not offer to name the AVI manually, the video is saved to the same folder as the directory specified under "Program Options/Directory for Recording". If nothing is in there, all I can assume is that the file may have been larger than 2GB and crashed CamStudio, in which case two temp files may or may not be still sitting in there (which sometimes can be reassembled in VirtualDub, but usually not...)
I'll look for that old post of yours!
Terry
Was it this thread? http://camstudio.org/forum/discussion/633/split-avi039s-wmv039s-and-not-saving-avi039s-to-default-directory
Terry