---
title: "HOW TO: Find the temp videos screenflow makes when uploading to vimeo and youtube"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2012/6/26/how-to-find-the-temp-videos-screenflow-makes-when-uploading.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2012/6/26/how-to-find-the-temp-videos-screenflow-makes-when-uploading.html"
published: "2012-06-25T23:42:40"
updated: "2012-06-25T23:42:40"
tags: ["Tips & Tricks"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I was finishing up a screenflow recording and immediately pressed the “upload to youtube” button. then I realized that the auto-saved video file will have to be re-generated if I ever wanted to upload it to another…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# HOW TO: Find the temp videos screenflow makes when uploading to vimeo and youtube

By Roy Osherove June 25, 2012 In [Tips & Tricks](https://osherove.com/blog/category/tips-tricks)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 25, 2012; technical details may be outdated.

I was finishing up a screenflow recording and immediately pressed the “upload to youtube” button.

then I realized that the auto-saved video file will have to be re-generated if I ever wanted to upload it to another location. That is a bit silly, isn’t it?

So I wondered if I can backup the currently uploading video (it has to be on the machine somewhere).

I looked, and could not find. I asked on twitter, and this one came a bit too late for me, but screenflow’s twitter handle (@screenflow) gave me this tip (on OSX):

> Try Finder>Library>autosave information
>
> or
>
> Finder>Library>Application support>Telestream>ScreenFlow>Auto Saving. 

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## About the author

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