Taking screen picture...saved to where?

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Taking screen picture...saved to where?

I was using the keystroke commands to capture the screen and the resulting .jpg would save to the desktop.. but now when I take a pic I have no idea where the pic is going!

Any ideas out there

Thanks

MacMini 2.0 C2D, iMac 24" 2.4, MacBook Pro 2.4., Mac OS X (10.5.5), Yes...one PeeCee in the house! Somewhere here...

Posted on Sep 21, 2008 6:03 PM

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Answer 1

Barney-15E

Level 10

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Sep 21, 2008 6:22 PM in response to NEFTALI

It should be going to the desktop.
You can edit the location with OnyX. I couldn't find the plist it was stored in.

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Answer 2

Dick M

Level 3

675 points

Sep 21, 2008 6:23 PM in response to NEFTALI

My images save as Picture.png files. Look around for such a thing with Spotlight. Open Grab and see if things work that way.

RM

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Answer 3

baltwo

Level 9

62,386 points

Sep 21, 2008 11:09 PM in response to Barney-15E

You can also set that with TinkerTool (freeware). BTW, the location is stored in the com.apple.screencapture.plist file, under location. If location isn't in that plist, you can add it with this terminal command:

*defaults write com.apple.screencapture location <path to where you want them stored>*

There's a chance that the plist doesn't exist unless you've modified some stuff such as default screenshot type. If that's the case, then you'll have to create it.

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Answer 4

Sep 22, 2008 2:20 AM in response to NEFTALI

They are probably saving to the clipboard. Next time you do a screenshot, try opening Preview and +File > New from Clipboard+ (or +N).

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