Where your recordings go

With Google Drive connected, recd saves into a recd folder in your My Drive, laid out like this:

My Drive/
  recd/
    Screen recordings/
      2026-10/
        2026-10-17 0912 Recording.mp4
        2026-10-17 1400 Recording/                 (all screens)
          2026-10-17 1400 Recording - Screen 1.mp4
          2026-10-17 1400 Recording - Screen 2.mp4
    Meetings/
      2026-10/
        2026-10-17 1000 Meeting/
          2026-10-17 1000 Meeting.m4a
          2026-10-17 1000 Meeting - My notes.txt
          2026-10-17 1000 Meeting - Transcript.txt
          2026-10-17 1000 Meeting - Notes.docx
    Inbox/                                         (phone recordings arrive here)

• One folder per month, named like 2026-10.
• Names start with the date and a 24-hour time, 2026-10-17 1400, so they sort in order and you can search by date. There's no colon in the time because Finder and Drive show a colon as a slash.
• A meeting gets its own folder, so its transcript and notes sit beside the audio.
• Nothing is overwritten. If a name is taken, the new one gets (2), (3) and so on.

To give a recording a real name, rename it in recd. See Rename, move and trash.

File types#

On your Mac#

Every recording is written to your Mac first, then moved into the Drive folder when it's finished. recd's working folder is Movies › recd in your home folder (~/Movies/recd). It holds:

• Raw: screen recordings while they're being made.
• Meeting tracks: each meeting's separate Me and Them tracks, kept for the transcript.

Leave these folders alone: recd uses them to recover a recording after a crash.

If you choose This Mac only, finished recordings also stay in ~/Movies/recd, in the same Screen recordings and Meetings layout.

A folder you picked by link#

If you point recd at a specific Drive folder (see Save places), recordings go straight into that folder, without the Screen recordings, Meetings and month folders.