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Zoom: Record a meeting to local disk

  • Start a Zoom meeting as host.

  • Click the Record button.

  • On the pop up menu, click Record on this Computer.

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As the host you will see the following recording indicator in the top-left corner while the recording is active.

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Participants will see the following indicator in the top-left corner while the recording is active.

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  • After the meeting has ended, Zoom will convert the recording so you can access the files.

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  • Once the conversion process is complete, the folder containing the recording file will open.


By default, the audio/video file (MP4) will be named Zoom_0.mp4. The audio only file (M4A) is named audio_only.m4a.


All recordings will be placed in the following Zoom folders by default:

  • Windows: C:\Users\User Name\Documents\Zoom

  • Mac: /Users/User Name/Documents/Zoom


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