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[Solved] MacOS X - Change Where Screen Shots Are Saved To
(@hans)
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September 14, 2015 11:39 PM
If you take a lot of screenshots you know how fast your desktop gets littered with them.
A more elegant solution is to create (for example) a "Screenshots" directory in your "Documents" directory, and then set that to the new default screenshot save location with a defaults write command:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Documents/Screenshots
(@hans)
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November 11, 2018 2:21 AM
Forgot to mention that the directory MUST exist of course. So create a directory if need be.