Mac OS X: Change The Location for Saving Captured Screenshots

Contributor Icon Contributed by Rob Rogers  
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By default, OS X deposits your captured screenshots onto your desktop. If you take a lot of screenshots, this can clutter things up very quickly. By changing the location, you can keep your desktop clean and your screenshots organized.

1. Open Terminal.

2. Input and execute the following command:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/username/Pictures/screenshots

Note: Substitute the path for the desired location for the one that I used above.

3. Input and execute the following command:
killall SystemUIServer

4. Close Terminal.

 

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  1. Anonymous said on October 29, 2009

    Very, very cool. That worked just fine, and now all my screen captures are going into my ScreeShots directory on my desktop.
    Thanks!

 

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