Fact · Transcription
The Illinois Zoom help page says that by default recordings made to a computer go to a Zoom folder inside the Documents folder: C:\Users\[user name]\Documents\Zoom on a PC and /Users/[user name]/Documents/Zoom on a Mac.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“By default, all recordings will be placed in the following locations”
Zoom, Local Recordings (University of Illinois), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IT help desk, undated, Overview of Local Recording.
Open the original- What it measures
- The page lists the default folder for local recordings on a PC and on a Mac, then the default file names for the MP4 and M4A files.
- What it does not show
- These are the defaults. The page advises against a cloud-synced, external or network folder as the recording location, and an account or user can change the location.