[GH-ISSUE #349] recover accidentally closed recording session #835

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opened 2026-03-15 10:40:42 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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2026-03-15 10:40:42 +03:00

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Originally created by @cyc115 on GitHub (Apr 9, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/issues/349

Is there a way to recover lost recording sessions that was accidentally closed? I remember vaguely that the recording is somewhere in /tmp but could not remember exactly where.

This happened quit a few times in the last few month and I've seen other issues that was brought up related to persisting recordings during a recording.

Originally created by @cyc115 on GitHub (Apr 9, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/issues/349 Is there a way to recover lost recording sessions that was accidentally closed? I remember vaguely that the recording is somewhere in `/tmp` but could not remember exactly where. This happened quit a few times in the last few month and I've seen other issues that was brought up related to persisting recordings during a recording.

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2026-03-15 10:40:48 +03:00

kerem commented

2026-03-15 10:40:53 +03:00

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@ku1ik commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2019):

If you have asciinema 2.0+ then the recording gets writtent in real time to a file in /tmp. The file has a random name but always gets .cast extension, so you can ls *.cast or find /tmp -name '*.cast' to find all that weren't finished.

@ku1ik commented on GitHub (Sep 8, 2019): If you have asciinema 2.0+ then the recording gets writtent in real time to a file in `/tmp`. The file has a random name but always gets `.cast` extension, so you can `ls *.cast` or `find /tmp -name '*.cast'` to find all that weren't finished.