{"id":12769,"date":"2017-05-11T16:12:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=12769"},"modified":"2017-05-11T16:12:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T10:42:01","slug":"change-default-screenshot-location-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/change-default-screenshot-location-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Default Screenshot Location on Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to Change Default Screenshot Location on Mac &#8211; Apple has made it unintelligibly simple to take screenshots on a Mac. Be that as it may, the default area to spare screenshots on a Mac is set to Desktop. This was clearly done to make it as simple as conceivable to discover the screenshots that a client takes. All things considered, the desktop is the most effectively open area on any PC. As simple and instinctive as this the procedure may be, it creates an issue for clients who need to take a great deal of screenshots on their Macs. Indeed, even a moderately modest number of screenshots can without much of a stretch mess the desktop. Clearly, one could simply move the screenshots to an alternate area, yet doing this routinely can rapidly get irritating.<\/p>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<p>For reasons unknown, there is a simple approach to get a Mac to change the default area for sparing screenshots. Isn&#8217;t that incredible? Not any more manual housekeeping required on your desktop! On the off chance that you are as upbeat about this probability as I might have been, the point at which I first got some answers concerning it, read on to discover precisely how you can do this on your Mac.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"editing-apple-defaults-the-terminal\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Editing Apple Defaults: The Terminal<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The Terminal happens to be one of my favourite apps on the Mac. It\u2019s incredibly versatile and powerful, and is also how you can edit the Apple Default values. If the Terminal sounds scary to you, don\u2019t worry, because I will be taking this in a completely causal-user-friendly manner. You can easily follow along what I\u2019m doing, just make sure you read all the steps properly.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Find the path\u00a0<\/strong>of the folder that you wish to use for saving screenshots.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>If\u00a0you want to create a new location to save your\u00a0screenshots, simply create a new folder wherever you want to save the screenshots.<\/li>\n<li>I want to save my new screenshots to a<strong>\u201cScreenshots\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0folder inside my work directory\u00a0<strong>\u201cWikitechy\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>If you don\u2019t know how to find the path of a\u00a0file\/folder on Mac, feel free to go through point #15 in this<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>Launch the Terminal\u00a0<\/strong>app on your Mac.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>You can use spotlight to look for Terminal, or find it in Launchpad, under the Other\u00a0folder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Type the following command inside Terminal:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p><strong><code>defaults write com.apple.screencapture location path_to_folder<\/code><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Replace<strong>\u201cpath_to_folder\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0with the path of the folder that you want to use to save screenshots on your Mac.<\/li>\n<li>In my case, the<strong>\u201cpath_to_folder\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<strong>\u201c~\/Wikitechy\/Screenshots\/\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/qwqeqw.png\" alt=\"How to Change Default Screenshot Location on Mac\" width=\"640\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/qwqeqw.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/qwqeqw-300x20.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Hit the Enter\/Return key.<\/li>\n<li>Next, type the following command:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p><strong><code>killall SystemUIServer<\/code><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sdaaa.png\" alt=\"How to Change Default Screenshot Location on Mac\" width=\"640\" height=\"21\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sdaaa.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sdaaa-300x10.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Hit\u00a0<strong>Enter\/Return.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Try taking a screenshot on your Mac, and it should appear at the new location, instead of the Desktop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4 id=\"bonus-theres-an-app-for-that\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Bonus:\u00a0There\u2019s an App for That!<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>GitHub user Cory Knapp has created an app that does all the Terminal command voodoo on its own,\u00a0saving you the trouble of having to use the Terminal yourself. You can find his app on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/coryknapp\/Screenshot-Destination-Menu\/releases\/tag\/v0.12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GitHub<\/a>. Keep in mind that, at the time of this writing, he has marked the app as\u00a0<strong>\u201cPre-release\u201d,<\/strong>\u00a0meaning that it is not a production release. Although, it worked fine on the macOS Sierra Public Beta 2, so there\u2019s really no reason that it shouldn\u2019t work for you.<\/p>\n<p>Installing the app is simple, and you can follow the steps below to get started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Download\u00a0<\/strong>the zip file from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/coryknapp\/Screenshot-Destination-Menu\/releases\/tag\/v0.12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unzip\u00a0<\/strong>it on your Mac. This will\u00a0<strong>extract<\/strong>\u00a0the app.<\/li>\n<li>Move the app to your\u00a0<strong>Applications folder.\u00a0<\/strong>It is on the left pane in Finder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/app-in-launchpad.png\" alt=\"How to Change Default Screenshot Location on Mac\" width=\"211\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can launch the app from\u00a0<strong>Launchpad,<\/strong>\u00a0or by looking up\u00a0<strong>\u201cScreenshot-Destination-Menu\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>Spotlight.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/app-in-spotlight-.png\" alt=\"How to Change Default Screenshot Location on Mac\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/app-in-spotlight-.png 640w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/app-in-spotlight--300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n[ad type=&#8221;banner&#8221;]\n<p><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong>You could also directly launch the app from the Downloads folder, or wherever you unzipped it into, but it\u2019s better to move it to Applications, to keep your Downloads folder uncluttered.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0app simply opens up as a\u00a0<strong>menu bar icon.<\/strong>Click on the icon, and the app gives three folders as options for setting the default directory to save screenshots.<\/li>\n<li>You can add or delete the folders given in the options very easily,\u00a0and\u00a0keep a list of folders which you can switch between quickly, according to your need.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/app-open-in-menubar.png\" alt=\"How to Change Default Screenshot Location on Mac\" width=\"305\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/app-open-in-menubar.png 305w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/app-open-in-menubar-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That\u2019s it, you can capture screenshots and they will save in the new location.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 id=\"declutter-your-desktop\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>Declutter your Desktop<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The Desktop is the first thing we see on logging in to our Macs, and it\u2019s best kept uncluttered. After all, who would like to see a completely stuffed Desktop as soon as they start up their Mac. Use the methods mentioned in this article to keep your\u00a0Desktop free from the Screenshot clutter, and\u00a0remove the burden of regular Desktop housekeeping from your shoulders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Change Default Screenshot Location on Mac &#8211; PC &#8211; Apple has made it unintelligibly simple to take screenshots on a Mac. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5739],"tags":[38731,38732,38738,38744,38736,38735,33682,38741,33686,38728,38727,38746,33723,38743,38730,33681,33685,38742,38729,38745,38740,38739,38734,33717,38733,38737],"class_list":["post-12769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-desktop-screenshot","tag-how-to-do-screenshot","tag-how-to-save-screenshot","tag-how-to-screenshot-on-mac","tag-how-to-take-screenshot-in-mac","tag-how-to-take-screenshot-on-mac","tag-mac-screenshot","tag-mac-screenshot-shortcut","tag-macbook-screenshot","tag-screen-capture-in-mac","tag-screen-capture-mac","tag-screenshot-button","tag-screenshot-for-mac","tag-screenshot-in-mac","tag-screenshot-in-macbook","tag-screenshot-mac","tag-screenshot-macbook","tag-screenshot-on-mac","tag-screenshot-on-macbook","tag-screenshot-settings","tag-screenshot-shortcut-mac","tag-snapshot-on-mac","tag-take-screenshot-in-mac","tag-take-screenshot-mac","tag-take-screenshot-on-mac","tag-where-are-screenshots-saved"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}