Quicktime screen recording randomly stops recording.

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Quicktime screen recording randomly stops recording.

I am using an M2 Mackbook Air on the latest version of MacOS Sequoia. When doing longer screen recordings, my macbook randomly cuts off and stops recording, with no warning and plenty of space left. This time varies between 10 and 40 minutes with seemingly no control. My mac has over 100gb of storage left after these recordings stop, and I have not had this problem before upgrading to sequoia.

How can I fix this issue?

MacBook Air, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 19, 2025 8:30 AM

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Mar 20, 2025 9:38 AM in response to PythonUser720

what location are you using as your "save to" location? I have, in the past, encountered issues with longer recordings stopping / not saving unexpectedly whenever I have selected anything other than "desktop" as my "save to" location. this has been especially true when "save to" is set to an external drive. so I now use "desktop" as my "save to" every time and afterwards I move them to my desired location manually. I haven't had an issue since.

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