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Newcomer
August 16, 2023
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Zoom meeting not recorded

  • August 16, 2023
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Posting here because this stupid company only offers customer support to paying customers which is f***ing ridiculous. I paid $120 dollars for a lesson that I wanted to record to watch back later. When I was in the meeting I hit record, the organizer was sharing their screen and I saw them click accept. So I figured it was recording. But apparently, Zoom thought it was a good idea to make you have to click record again which makes no f***ing sense. I checked my account and the recording isn't there. I know for a fact Zoom is storing these meetings somewhere within their own cloud even though it won't be in my account. Does anyone know how I can contact them to request the recording even though I'm on a free account? 

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Community Manager
August 16, 2023

Hi @fkzoom welcome to the community, and sorry for your bad experiences with attempting to recording your meeting!

 

May I ask, were you the host of the meeting or just a participant? I ask because if you were not the host, and you initiated a cloud recording, that cloud recording will be on the Hosts Account; therefore, you would need to reach out to the Host to share the recording with you. 

fkzoomAuthor
Newcomer
August 16, 2023

I was the participant. So you're saying the organizer will have the recording in their cloud recordings even if they didn't click record (they just clicked accept) and they are also on a free account? I thought cloud recordings were behind a paywall. Thanks

Newcomer
October 8, 2025

I'm wondering if there has been some kind of workaround to this, as the exact same scenario happened to me today - I have a free account, and was sent a meeting invite. Once the meeting began, I sent a permission to record request, which was promptly accepted - I, too, assumed this would begin the recording of said meeting. It would appear that by not taking the (redundant?) extra step of actually hitting record after the permission was granted, I lost the entire meeting? Because that was an interview for an article, and I'm going to have to paraphrase quotes from memory, which is NOT a great look. 


Did you ever hear back?  Same issue here for me. Starting to wonder if Zoom reads these and takes feedback seriously?