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Gnome sound recorder - internal data format, temp data recovery

Asked by bpbp

I have been sound recording (gnome-sound-recorder 2.28.1) some usability interactive session and suddenly computer crashed (lost power).

I have not started any audio/video app after crash, first thing I have done after crash was a file search looking for files with last hour datetimestamps + more then 20MB

I have found some data files from temp(?) directory that I identified as [/dev/shm] and copied those files elsewhere.
Files are named "mono.????" (and are about 4kB) and "pulse-shm-????????" (64MB)

Is there a way how to get a recorded audio from those temp files?

Thanks & regards, bpbp

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Rajinder Sandhu (sandy744) said : 		#1

No those files are not the ones you are looking....
you have lost your recording because recording is done in /tmp folder and will be lost as soon as system crashes or you close sound recorder without saving.
Do one thing, again record any thing and keep your /tmp folder open to view the recording file behaviour you will find the file size keeps increasing and sooner you close the application without saving it deletes itself, So what is gone is gone you need to start all over again. I have been searching for clue to change the default path from /tmp to another but that i am not getting. What I feel that way it will be safe.
Thanks
Rajinder

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