Where your meetings and recordings are stored
Recordstead keeps your meeting library in an app-managed folder. Files you explicitly export go to a separate folder you can change. Moving recordings to an external destination moves audio, not the library.
The app's own folder
Section titled “The app's own folder”~/Library/Application Support/com.recordstead.app/The meeting library and local recordings live here. Recordstead manages this folder; you cannot point it elsewhere. Back up the library while the app is closed.
Recordings are kept for 7 days
Section titled “Recordings are kept for 7 days”By default, local audio from completed, transcribed meetings is removed after seven days; meeting entries and text remain. Change the rule to keep audio longer or move it instead.
Moving recordings off this Mac instead of deleting
Section titled “Moving recordings off this Mac instead of deleting”External destinations hold encrypted audio on a drive, S3-compatible bucket or SFTP server. Preserve that archive separately from the meeting library.
Changing or disconnecting a destination
Section titled “Changing or disconnecting a destination”A disconnected archive keeps its files. Reconnect it to verify audio for meetings still in the library.
Downloaded recordings
Section titled “Downloaded recordings”Remote audio may be downloaded temporarily for listening or processing. Encrypted copies expire six hours after last use. Use a moved recording.
A meeting with no transcript keeps its recording
Section titled “A meeting with no transcript keeps its recording”The automatic rule leaves untranscribed audio alone, including record-only meetings and recordings made while processing access is unavailable.
What a meeting looks like once its recording is gone
Section titled “What a meeting looks like once its recording is gone”The meeting and its text remain. Playback, audio export and any later work that needs samples become unavailable if the only audio was deleted. Moved audio remains usable from its destination.
What is taking up space
Section titled “What is taking up space”Open Settings (⌘,) → Storage → What is using space for a local breakdown. This does not include your export folder or external destinations.
Your export folder
Section titled “Your export folder”~/Documents/Recordstead/Only your exports arrive here, unless you point an integration at this folder. Open Settings → General › Export folder. Choose… changes the destination for future exports; Reset restores the default. Earlier exports do not move.
Getting things out
Section titled “Getting things out”Export a transcript, summary and notes or export the recording as WAV. Both go to your export folder.
A transcript is not a file
Section titled “A transcript is not a file”Meetings, transcripts, summaries and notes live in the library database, and so does the live transcript of a call recorded with Live Transcript on. Removing a recording file does not remove its meeting; delete the meeting in Recordstead when that is what you intend.