macOS keep recreating mov file after I delete it

[MarvenSmith28]

Here is a bit of background: I used Photo Booth instead of QuickTime Player to record a longer video with the continuity camera feature which turned out to be a bad idea as it did not work and an hour long recording went nowhere but ever since then there is a movie recording called "Untitled.mov" sitting on the desktop and when I delete it and empty the trash it shows up a few minutes later. This is nuts. Any ideas how I can keep macOS/Quicktime from recreating this file?

 

[fisherking]

odd one. have you deleted the file from within photo booth? and have you tried rebooting your mac?...

 

[MarvenSmith28]

Yep. Photo Booth is completely empty and the 2022 MacBook Air M2 has rebooted several times since then. Tried deleting Photo Booth prefs but that did not help either. There must be some kind of cache folder or something...

 

[fisherking]

does it open? sounds like it's still trying to finish writing. perhaps leave it there for an hour, then try to delete it...

 

[MarvenSmith28]

It opens fine. I left it running over night. Same issue.

 

[fisherking]

try a safe boot, delete, reboot...

EDIT: something keeps recreating the file; see bogdanw's post below. you can also try highlighting the file, and hitting command-option-delete, which will (in theory) kill that sucker dead.... (that's the technical term) 😎

 

[bogdanw]

QuickTime stores unsaved videos in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave Information/Unsaved
For Photo Booth, check in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.PhotoBooth/Data/Library/ Autosave or Caches

 

[MarvenSmith28]

Found the culprit: Google Drive. Once I deleted it on Google Drive it never came back. I figured it out when I was disconnected from the internet and noticed that it was not recreated Thanks for all the help!