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ScreenFlow question.

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BaBayOOsa

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hey i just got screenflow and am learning it but i have a question.

after i record something (for any given time) and then maybe choose that i don't want it. and i go to delete it i right click it in down below where it shows my timeline and click delete. then i go in my media in the top right and delete it from there. but just to double check i did a test on the amount of space its using.

so checked how much HD space i had before i did a recording then did one for only a minute or so maybe. then deleted it from my timeline/media folder (inside screenflow) and i am missing HD space.....

so where do these recordings go? because i have been messing around with it and recording some pretty long sessions just to get a feel for it but im afraid im losing HD space. so where do i find these so i can delete them?
 
all these applications seem useful but none will really help me find as to where those files are........
 
BaBayOOsa said:
all these applications seem useful but none will really help me find as to where those files are........
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Oh yes, they do, that's what they are meant to do, or did you already try one and found nothing?

If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.
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OmniDiskSweeper is a Mac OS X utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and making space on your hard disks. OmniDiskSweeper scans your disks and highlights the biggest files, so you can determine what's using up your disk space. It's a fast, easy way to find things that are hogging your drive and clear them out so you've got room for the stuff you really need.
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JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders.
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GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.
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i was using disk inventory X and couldn't really manage to figure out as to where certain files are......
 
How much space are we talking about? I know those .screenflow files are huge.
Maybe it is generating thumbnails somewhere?
Also use the terminal command to show all files, maybe hidden:

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles
(relaunch finder after command)

My screenflow is old 1.5.3, tested and deletes what it creates...
Double check in finder where you are exporting
 
see thats the thing i don't know how or where i am exporting as far as i know it doesn't export i think it just keeps them inside the application.....

what is this terminal command? and how do i use it?
 
First off, go to your screenflow preferences and click Advanced.
"Capture Scratch Disk" at the bottom is where screenflow will save.
Check there.

Screenflow records in .screenflow format: large file, and not playable except by screenflow. This is why you need to export, it will not do it automatically.
Click on export in the file menu. Choose a location and video quality preferences. Once it finishes you will now have 2 files:

Original recording: located where ever you chose your "capture scratch disk"
.screenflow file

Exported file: located where you chose when you click export.
.mov file

These are the only files that screenflow creates that I know of. Hope this cleared things up
 
Open terminal

Paste:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

Hit enter

Press: Command + Option + Escape
Click on Finder, click relaunch. Now you can see all the hidden files...

To change back do the same thing but paste this instead:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
 
this is what it shows:
farh9l.png


now im confused because when i first started using screen slow i never specified where i want the recording to go........
 
I had this exact problem, except a bit more extreme - I'm down to roughly 2-3Gb free on my mac, and was trying to export a movie but it messed up while exporting. When I tried to export it again, I noticed that my memory didn't increase again after the fail, but I couldn't find the failed file. The second export didn't work either, leaving me with about 100Mb free and no files to account for it!

Using OmniDiskSweeper, I tracked down the offending articles -

Go to User > Library > Cache > TemporaryItems

and just delete the files that failed, or in your case the recordings that shouldn't be there.

Thanks for helping me guys!
 
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