Question / Help Any way to recover recording that wasn't fully saved due to lack of space?

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whyme

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I realize this is a long shot, but I thought it was worth at least asking.

I didn't realize that videos were saving to my SSD instead of my much larger hard drive, so during 12 hours of screen capturing only 8 hours were saved since the SSD was filled. Is there any way to recover those 4 hours that were not saved?

Thanks for taking the time to read.
 
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whyme

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Hey bob,

OBS was working fine the whole time. When I clicked "stopped recording," it correctly showed that I had been recording for 12 hours. However, only 8 hours were saved. That's when I realized that my SSD had been filled.
 
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Beardedbob

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Strange i would have expected OBS to have crashed or thrown a bennie once the space was reached, which part of the video is missing? the start or end?
 
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RytoEX

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If the drive of your destination folder is full, then I'd hazard a guess that OBS Studio had nowhere to put its encoded video data. Unless there's some kind of emergency "drive is full, temporarily output video data to another drive here" setting in OBS Studio, your data is gone. I would be happy to be proven wrong - data-loss is never fun.

I do find it interesting that neither OBS Studio nor Windows complained as soon as the drive was full.
 
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Beardedbob

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@RytoEX I would have expected one of them to throw up an error. I thought that it could potentially do rolling record so once it ran out of space it would over write the file like shadow play can "Not that i've seen the option or it happen with OBS" but as @whyme states it was the end that was cut off and not the start so this was was never going to be the case.

@Simes yep certainly seems the way.
 
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katko

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This just happened to me. I caught it immediately and canceled but Windows 7 warns you at like...a couple MB from full and now I've got no header info in an 8 GB file worth of recording.

This sucks.
 
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RytoEX

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katko said:
This just happened to me. I caught it immediately and canceled but Windows 7 warns you at like...a couple MB from full and now I've got no header info in an 8 GB file worth of recording.

This sucks.
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The file header is at the end of the file for MP4 files, so based on your statement, I would hazard a guess that you recorded directly to MP4. Don't do that. Record to FLV for single-track audio or MKV for multi-track audio, and remux the file later using OBS Studio's built-in remux feature if you need an MP4 file for editing.
 
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