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Shift-Command-5 suddenly no longer shows onscreen capture control options!

Shift-Command-5 suddenly no longer shows onscreen capture controls! They appeared/worked for many months, allowing me to select where to save previous screenshots, but suddenly I no longer have that option — all I see is the selection box to select what's included in the capture — and I don't have a clue where my screen captures are going! It makes the screen capture function pretty much useless. :-( How can I make that control bar appear again, please?? (I'm using Mojave and have for some time — this does not reflect an operating system change. Screen capture worked fine yesterday, but not today — no idea what actually changed.)

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14

Posted on Dec 12, 2019 2:04 PM

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Posted on Dec 12, 2019 2:55 PM

Sorry, false alarm! Responding to my own post above: turns out this was some sort of general system problem, _not_ one with the screen capture tool, per se. After trying unsuccessfully to use a free-standing app to capture a screen shot after the failure of the built-in app mentioned above, I suspected something more general might be wrong and decided simply to restart my computer. Lo and behold, that solved the problem — invoking the shift-command-5 screen capture tool again shows the screen capture control bar, just as it used to. I can now resume breathing normally... :-)

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Dec 12, 2019 2:55 PM in response to Tom Altman

Sorry, false alarm! Responding to my own post above: turns out this was some sort of general system problem, _not_ one with the screen capture tool, per se. After trying unsuccessfully to use a free-standing app to capture a screen shot after the failure of the built-in app mentioned above, I suspected something more general might be wrong and decided simply to restart my computer. Lo and behold, that solved the problem — invoking the shift-command-5 screen capture tool again shows the screen capture control bar, just as it used to. I can now resume breathing normally... :-)

Shift-Command-5 suddenly no longer shows onscreen capture control options!

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