If you want to resume saving screenshots to the Desktop, then:
If your Mac has a Touch Bar, then you can take a screenshot of the Touch Bar using the ‘Shift + Command + 6’ keyboard shortcut.Ĭhanged your mind? Switch back to the Desktop.Move the camera over the window that you want to screenshot, until that window is highlighted blue. The pointer will then transform into a camera. To screenshot a specific window, press the ‘Shift + Command + 4’ keys and then press the ‘Space’ bar.To get selective, use the ‘Command + Shift + 4’ keyboard shortcut, and then use the crosshairs to select the portion of the screen that you want to screenshot.To take a screenshot of your entire screen, use the ‘Command + Shift + 3’ keyboard shortcut.To check that the Terminal command has been successful, it’s a good idea to take a few screenshots and check that they’re being stored in the correct location. Killall SystemUIServer Put your new location to the test Copy/paste the following command, and then press ‘Enter.’.The folder’s entire file path will be added to the Terminal command automatically. Drag and drop this folder into the Terminal.
Open a ‘Finder’ window and navigate to the folder where you want to save your screenshots.Type the first part of the command, but don’t press the ‘Enter’ key just yet.ĭefaults write location.However, if you want to save your screenshots to a directory that’s buried deep in the file system, then this can result in a Terminal command that’s long and complicated, and pretty daunting to type manually. You can save your screenshots to any folder, by typing the “defaults write…” command. Copy/paste the next command into the Terminal:.Press the ‘Enter’ key on your keyboard.Copy/paste the following command into the Terminal – don’t forget to change the location to the folder where you want to store your screenshots!ĭefaults write location ~/Documents.
Navigate to ‘Applications/Utilities’ and launch your Mac’s Terminal application.Just a word of warning: make sure you’ve actually created the folder before applying this change, as asking macOS to save screenshots to a folder that doesn’t exist can cause problems! You can store your screenshots in any folder, but in this example I’m going to be changing macOS’ default behaviour so that it saves all of my screenshots to the ‘Documents’ folder. Changing screenshot location with the Terminal