KAM Capture Tool 1.6.0 - Retake and Discard, into the Recycle Bin
Retake and Discard, for recordings and screenshots.
A bad take no longer becomes a file. The recording bar has Retake, which throws the take away and starts again straight away — same sources, same region or window, the bar where you left it, and take 2 beside the time so you know it happened — and Discard, which stops and throws the take away. The annotator has Retake (Ctrl+R) for a screenshot: the capture is thrown away and taken again the same way it was taken, region, window or full screen.
The Recycle Bin, instead of "are you sure". A confirmation on every retake would slow down the one thing retakes are for. So neither button asks; a thrown-away take goes to the Recycle Bin rather than away for good, and a mistaken click costs nothing. The annotator asks only when something has been drawn on the capture, because that is work rather than a file.
Retaking a named screenshot keeps its name. Anything already saved from a retaken screenshot goes to the Recycle Bin with it, and Save as steps back one, so the retake of slide 4 is offered slide 4 again rather than slide 5.
Checked end to end. --retaketest drives the real recording controller: start an audio take, retake it, discard the second, then check the folder is empty and both takes are in the Recycle Bin — and remove them from it, so the test leaves nothing behind. Run once with Discard deleting outright, it failed: expected both takes in the Recycle Bin, found 0. The annotator's Retake opens the selection overlay across the screen, which the headless checks avoid, so it has no automated test.
Install: download KamCapture.exe below and run it. It asks where to install — per-user, never as administrator — or runs where it stands. The .NET runtime is inside it, so there is nothing to install first. Recording, video or audio, also needs ffmpeg: winget install Gyan.FFmpeg
Updating: 1.2.x and later offer this by itself.
It is not code signed, so SmartScreen warns the first time: More info, then Run anyway. Get-FileHash KamCapture.exe should match:
6B664C9DAE97F871D8FB74583B8A6AB19A1773A859A2D268BA52D999A1D88B39 KamCapture.exe
Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.6.0