Settings & data
Audio retention
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How long Oris keeps the audio behind a note, and the two settings on the Recordings tab that decide it.
Meeting audio adds up, so Oris clears out old recordings on its own. Settings → Recordings → Audio retention sets how long a recording is kept, in days, defaulting to 90. Set it to 0 and Oris stops clearing anything out on its own, leaving deletion as something you do deliberately from a row in the history. When a recording ages out, its audio and the working files that go with it are removed together.
Your notes are never touched. A note that links to the audio keeps its link, which Obsidian then shows as a broken one, so it’s obvious the source recording is gone rather than misplaced.
Cleanup happens when you start a new recording rather than on a schedule, so a long stretch away from Oris won’t churn through old files in the background.
The app’s recordings history shows where each recording stands. While retention is on, every row carries a countdown (“audio: 82d left”), which reads “audio pruned” once the file has gone. Set retention to 0 and no countdown appears at all, because nothing is going anywhere. Because the sweep only runs at the start of a recording, “0d left” means eligible rather than deleted: the file goes the next time you record. Rows also carry a Delete audio now action for clearing one out immediately. That one is worth reading the confirmation on, because deleting a recording’s audio also gives up the ability to retry its summary.
The controls
The tab opens with Recent recordings, your last five recordings and imports as compact rows showing note name, date, mini-stats and status, plus a See all recordings… button that opens the full history in a sheet. Rows carry actions to open or share the landed note, reveal the audio, retry a failed summary, or delete the audio early. See Recordings history. That list is display rather than settings, and nothing in it is written back to your configuration. The settings sit below a divider:
- Audio retention — a Days field controlling how long raw recordings are kept before Oris cleans them up. The default is 90 days, and 0 keeps everything.
- Auto-stop on silence — a Stop recording after a stretch of silence switch, a minutes value, and a Warn me … seconds before it stops field. When both the mic and system-audio tracks go quiet for that long, the recording stops itself and transcription runs normally. The default is five minutes with a sixty-second warning, and changes apply to your next recording. See stopping itself.