Geek Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p>By default, anytime you <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/06/09/screen-capture-in-mac-os-x/">take a screen capture in Mac OS X</a> it will save the screenshot file to the current users desktop. You can adjust where Mac OS X saves a captured screenshot to any other location, here is how to do this:</p> <p>Launch Terminal and use the following syntax:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /path/</code></p> <p>For example, if I want to have the screenshots appear in my Pictures folder, I would use:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures/</code></p> <p>To have the changes take effect, you then must type:</p> <p><code>killall SystemUIServer</code></p> <p>So the next time you take a screenshot (or as Windows converts like to say, <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/13/print-screen-mac/">Print Screen on a Mac</a>), the screenshot file will appear at the location you specified.</p> <p>You can change the saved screenshot location back to the default setting by specifying the desktop again:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/</code></p> <p>Again, you’d need to kill SystemUIServer for changes to take effect.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0v4tuiGmVny8v0Vfhp-z7yYF52Q/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0v4tuiGmVny8v0Vfhp-z7yYF52Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0v4tuiGmVny8v0Vfhp-z7yYF52Q/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0v4tuiGmVny8v0Vfhp-z7yYF52Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=uOYUhgmSMGA:56cEc8BpSBE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=uOYUhgmSMGA:56cEc8BpSBE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=uOYUhgmSMGA:56cEc8BpSBE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=uOYUhgmSMGA:56cEc8BpSBE:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=uOYUhgmSMGA:56cEc8BpSBE:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=uOYUhgmSMGA:56cEc8BpSBE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=uOYUhgmSMGA:56cEc8BpSBE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/uOYUhgmSMGA" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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