Change how long recordings stay on your Mac

Recordstead keeps local audio for seven days by default. After that, it deletes audio from completed, transcribed meetings while leaving their transcripts, summaries and meeting entries. You can change that rule.

Keep audio you may need again

Once the only recording is deleted, you cannot play it, export it, re-transcribe it or correct speakers from samples. Export important audio or move it to an external destination before the rule removes it.

Set the rule

1. Open Settings… (⌘,) › Storage › Recordings storage.
2. Under Keep on this Mac, choose an age or a number of recent recordings. The new choice also applies to recordings you already have.
3. Under Then, choose Delete to remove eligible local audio, or Move to destination to keep an encrypted external copy. Set up a destination before choosing the latter.

There is no keep-forever choice or exemption for one meeting. Audio from a meeting without a transcript stays regardless of age: until it is transcribed, that recording is its only content. This includes record-only meetings and recordings made while processing access is unavailable.

Your result: eligible local recordings follow your chosen rule. Text and meeting entries remain; external copies are not deleted by the local Delete rule.