How To Change Screenshot Default Save Location on Mac. How To Change The Default Save Location on Mac When Issuing Screenshot Keyboard Shortcut Commands.
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To Change Screenshot Default Save Location:
Line 1:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /path of Folder for Screenshots
Line2:
killall SystemUIServer
To revert back to the Default Screenshot location:
Line 1:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/Username/Desktop
Replace Username with that of yours, in my case, it’s MacStudioA
Line 2:
killall SystemUIServer
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In this episode, How To Change Screenshot Location on Mac.
By default, when issuing the keyboard shortcuts for full screen screenshot shift+cmd+3 or sectional screenshot shift+cmd+4, the default save location, is on the Desktop.
After a while, your Desktop can become quite messy.
An alternative would be, to have all screenshots saved in a Folder, anywhere you like on a Mac or even on an external disk, when issuing the Screenshot keyboard commands.
This can be accomplished by entering two simple one line commands in Terminal:
Straight to a demo.
Sooooo Let’s Get Started
Let’s first create a Folder, where you’ll like all screenshots to be saved, when issuing the Screenshot keyboard commands, I’ll create one on an external disk named “Screenshot Lib”.
Next, open Terminal and enter the following Two line commands, in the following format:
Line 1:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /path of Folder for Screenshots
Line2:
killall SystemUIServer
Therefore, for Line 1:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location followed by a space.
The easiest way to enter the path is by simply dragging the Folder just created on the external disk to line one in Terminal as follows, followed by carriage return.
Followed by line 2:
killall SystemUIServer followed by carriage return.
All Terminal commands used in this episode can be found in the description of this video below.
Now, as you can see, whenever executing the following keyboard shortcut shift+cmd+3 or shift+cmd+4, the screenshots are saved in the new default screenshot folder on the external disk.
To revert back to the Default screenshot location, simply enter the following two, one line commands in Terminal:
Line 1:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/Username/Desktop
Replace Username with that of yours, in my case, it’s MacStudioA
Line 2:
killall SystemUIServer
And that’s all there is to it.
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