How to Set a Folder to Save Screen Shots on Mac

Whenever you take the screen shots on Mac it directly save those on desktop. This would be better if you specify a  folder on Mac to automatically save the screen shots because in that way it’ll be easy to organize them. So, if you want to change the default storage location, which is the desktop on Mac for screen shots then follow these steps to do so.

See also: How to capture screen shots on Mac

Step 1

Click on Finder

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Step 2

Navigate to Utilities folder and click on Terminal icon to launch it

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Step 3

Type the following command in Terminal and press enter button to execute it.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/username/desktop/twscreenshots

where: mac09  = mac user name & twscreenshots = your specified folder on desktop

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Step 4

Now, type and execute another command in Terminal
killall SystemUIServer

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Close the Terminal window, the default location to save the screen shots has been replaced by the new specified folder

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Comments:

  1. Jootoo 27 September 2009 at 12:42 pm #

    I was just wondering that how to change the default location to save screenshots on mac, thanx for this

  2. inds 30 September 2009 at 10:28 am #

    I want to say – thank you for this!

  3. Rukh 1 October 2009 at 11:59 am #

    that’s right, when you take screen shots on mac they all store on desktop and create a mess. Nice tip to set a folder to save them all

  4. Gob 2 October 2009 at 7:13 pm #

    nice tip, Is there any separate program available to capture screens in mac?

    • trickYguY 9 October 2009 at 5:19 am #

      Whydo you need a separate program for screen capture only. I think built-in screen capture shortcuts are enough to capture screen shots of Dialogs, region, icons etc.

  5. Roma 3 October 2009 at 5:43 pm #

    Thanks neMo

  6. Roberto 4 October 2009 at 5:31 am #

    cool blog

  7. dinga 4 October 2009 at 12:50 pm #

    I bookmarked this link. Thank you for good job!

  8. Chun 13 October 2009 at 1:52 pm #

    Yes, built-in functinality is eniugh to take screen shots

  9. Nono 17 October 2009 at 3:03 pm #

    Mac default screenshot taking feature works nice and especially your this informative writing adds value to that

  10. phein 19 October 2009 at 2:28 am #

    Thanks

  11. Mats Wiklund 26 October 2009 at 10:48 am #

    thanks for Mac article

  12. Ulf 28 October 2009 at 12:25 pm #

    great work all the time I have problems while taking screen shots on mac

  13. marcus 7 28 October 2009 at 5:33 pm #

    you people are doing nice work

  14. Yebi 30 October 2009 at 6:29 pm #

    thanks a lot really helped me out to change the default location of screen shots to save in mac

  15. Asao 4 November 2009 at 6:37 am #

    I was really wondering about this mac screenshot problem thanks for this knowledgeable work

  16. Paul Johannesson 7 November 2009 at 6:03 am #

    Nice mac work

  17. Nummer 12 15 November 2009 at 1:32 pm #

    nice Mac OS tips

  18. Harlad 17 December 2009 at 4:06 pm #

    this was really a problem for me that screen shots came directly to desktop where already i have a lot of stuff. After reading your article I fixed a folder for screen shots on mac.

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