This would work in theory. In practice though, I take a long time to draw. Without the Krita recorder’s storage saving functionality, this would be unfeasible
If you did save them directly into the cloud, this usually won’t work and is absolutely NOT advised to do.
Michelist
This was after changing the recorder folder to my local drive, not the cloud. The google drive icon is just an app I have minimized. I think I’ve fixed my new issue by changing the recorder directory to a hidden folder.
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Would “Files” app work for this case? Total commander made me hit a few walls that I couldn’t move past so I have been using this “Files” app. You can delete and copy files but cannot move folders from “data” from what I have seen thus far with this app.
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You can try it, but at the time I had an Android phone, the wall banger app was Android’s “Files” app, maybe they’ve switched roles in the meantime? You can only win, or you lose nothing. What’s the point? Let’s give it a try!
Michelist
It’s an external app other than the default one, weirdly named simply “Files” 
I am not sure who made it, can check though, but I have seen it being linked once around this forum.
It’s this one:
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Ah, I didn’t know this app existed, and I had probably mistaken it for the original if I had read this thread. And knowing the original’s inabilities, it’s a very pointless action to name your app the same as the native app, usually¹ it is the best way to get drowned unnoticed in the ocean of apps available.
Michelist
Add/Edit: I just read the description of “that App”, it is only an App calling the original file-manager:
¹ Add/Edit 2: The number of downloads speaks another language.
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It allows for the user to reach the “data” and “obb” folders though which is currently not possible with Android 13+ default files app and Total commander didn’t work for me when I initially tried it on org.krita. No hurt in trying, hopefully the OP can recover their files with this app.
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That is interesting, it means that they did some coding-voodoo with this App that allows it to access areas other file-managers can’t.
Michelist
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Yup, I use this one and have recommended it. (A few others may have too.) 
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Sorry for the wait, I hit the posting limit. Sadly this is a dud. This is actually one of the file managers I tried before posting this thread. The problem here is that there seems to be two different org.krita folders in two different secret folders called “data”:
storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.krita/files
Is the first one. This seems to be where most of Krita’s settings are, and Files & Total Commander CAN find this. Your computer can as well with a wired connection though.
/data/user/0/org.krita/files
Is the second. To my understanding, this is an extra secret file Google has hidden within android. It seems Krita is allowed to do things in here, but users aren’t without rooting their devices. Files & Total commander aren’t allowed here either, and neither are computers with a wired connection. This is where the KritaRecorder folder is, even according to Krita itself (before the user changes the path manually). Don’t take my word for it, try finding the default KritaRecorder file with Files or TC.
TC can get you close however. If you click “File system root” at the home page, then data, it takes you to /data (Which again is different from Android/data). It doesn’t let me go any deeper though.
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Can you save out the image sequence out of recorder ? Because that is a really bad situation then.
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Yes, I am also interested in this topic. @sooz and @Michelist is there no way you can change the recording directory to an accessible one like there is on desktop version?
Hello @back2drawing, and welcome back to the forum!
It seems you didn’t read the full topic, correct?
You can assign any path you have access to and use it without difficulties. Only files in the default folder are “locked up”, and I strongly believe because of an action from Google to make Android safer.
Michelist
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Thank you for the welcome back @Michelist. I was reading the answers and after a point I was quite confused if that’s really possible.
Thank you again for clarifying, and great to hear that there is a solution for this feature.
yeah I was taking a look at the recorder plugin and there is button on the top right that gives access to the folder where it is currently saving but that is locked right ? if so it is probably lost then.
I didn’t know this foot gun still existed. What you can do is Disable the native file dialog (Settings → Configure Krita → General → Miscellaneous → Uncheck ‘Enable native file dialogs’ → Press Ok). Now import animation from File → Import Animation, once imported you can export it to some place you can access (You’ll have to check the native file dialogs button again).
I hope this tricky maneuver works!
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Getting closer: This looks like it should work, and I can find the files now within the Import Animation Frames tool. The problem is that as the process starts, the amount of memory it takes to hold the file open balloons, until the app inevitably RAM crashes…