Cleanup of OpenScreen old recordings

[ManuelAlvesDtx]

Hi!
Many thanks for building such a great tool!
I couldn't find an option to delete old recordings or run a cleanup. I'm using this Ubuntu Bash script. Am I missing something?

Best regards,
Manuel Alves
openscreen-cleanup.sh

[XNinety9]

You're not missing anything: from the current source there's no delete action for recordings, no retention setting and no automatic cleanup. Even deleting a project leaves its recordings in place ("Delete this project? Your recordings are kept."). Recordings are only removed when a take is discarded or fails.

A few details that help with a cleanup script:

• Where they are: by default recordings/ in OpenScreen's user data folder (path.join(userData, "recordings"), electron/recording/recordingsDirManager.ts), which on Linux is ~/.config/openscreen/recordings/, unless you picked another one under Recordings folder in Record mode.
• What a take leaves behind: recording-<id>.mp4 plus a cursor sidecar recording-<id>.mp4.cursor.json, so delete both.
• One more cache: ~/.config/openscreen/audio-peaks/ holds waveform data per file and isn't pruned either. It's small, but it does grow over time.

For example, to remove takes older than 30 days:

dir=~/.config/openscreen/recordings
find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -name 'recording-*.mp4' -mtime +30 -print | while read -r f; do
  rm -v -- "$f" "$f.cursor.json" 2>/dev/null
done

Be careful with recordings that a project still uses: deleting a project doesn't delete its recordings, so projects point at these files rather than owning a copy. Removing a file a project still references will most likely leave that project with a missing clip.