WHERE ARE MY SCREENSHOTS GOING MAC FREE
Please feel free to add your comment or improve this user tip. Hope this helps to prevent the situation when your desktop is cluttered with dozens of screenshots. Press return and paste this command to save changes: Finally, press the menu to take a screenshot. Now, release the mouse to screenshot the region, and next, use the Space key to alter the pointer to a camera. In order to revert changes paste this command to the terminal window:ĭefaults write location ~/Desktop/ First, open the menu and then, use ' Command + Shift + 4 ' keys at the same time, and next, drag the cross to the region of the menu. Now your screenshots are saved in the folder on your desktop. Then paste this command to save changes and see immediate effect So you need to paste this command to the terminal in order to save screen captures in recently created screenshots folder:ĭefaults write location ~/Desktop/screenshots/ If you wish to save screenshots in downloads folder the path looks this way: ~/Downloads/ If you have already created screenshots folder on your desktop the location of this folder(aka path) is: If screen captures are stored on your desktop: path/ is the place where you want to save your screenshots. Copy and paste this command to the terminal window:ĭefaults write location /path/ Select utilities and find Terminal app there. To do this click on Finder icon and look for “Go” menu at the top. Open the Terminal application on your Mac. Type the name of your future screenshot storage folder(i my case I call it screenshots)ģ. In order to rename it just do a single click on it and press Enter or Return key. However you may choose the name that best fits you. Now I have the new “untitled folder” on my desktop. I have created new folder on my desktop.Ģ. Probably the easiest way to create new folder is well known command + shift+ N combination. Than choose “File” and click on “New folder”.
To do this you just click on Finder and look for “File” menu at the top. What to do in this case? You may easily adjust where to save captured screenshots.ġ.First of all you should make new folder somewhere on your Mac. However if you use command + shift + 3(eventually 4) shortcut to often and do not want to trash the old files, one day you may find your desktop overwhelmed with screenshots. By default, screenshot is saved on your Desktop.
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