Quicktime crashed while recording, where's the file now?

Hi all,
Quicktime crashed when I was saving a long speech I had just recorded. I can't find the file anywhere. Does anyone know where the file might be stored so I can attempt to find it and not have to re-record this thing again? I don't see it in users>library>cache>quicktime. Which folder would it be in?
Thanks!

Hi Baby Boomer,
A simple spotlight search won't work because the file name wasn't applied to the temp file that was being written as the recording was being made.
The issue is that it wasn't saved, it crashed before saving with a file name. When I stopped the recording and and hit file>save, then the program crashed.
So somewhere, I assume there is a temp file with the recorded data in it. That's the file I'm looking for. I'm guessing that a couple hundred megs of quicktime data doesn't just disappear, even if it's not saved, but is instead tucked away in some cache file waiting to be overwritten.

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