“cannot open” when trying to save screen recording in quicktime player

Solution 1:

Sounds like a permissions problem. If it’s a bug I suspect it will be fixed in a future macOS update. Not much help, I know.

Until then, you have to peek behind the curtain:

1. Unsaved recordings are stored at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave Information/
2. The file will be called Unsaved QuickTime Player Document.qtpxcomposition, or similar
3. Show Package Contents on that file
4. Inside is Screen Recording.mov which you can copy and keep

Solution 2:

Had this situation now, couldn't locate the temporary file in the suggested places - however:

Doing Menus:

File/Move To... - did the trick, to the ~/Documents folder