screen shot location change

User Tip > How to Change Screenshot Save Location - Apple Community

How to take a screenshot on your Mac - Apple Support

Use the screenshot thumbnail

When you take a screenshot in macOS Mojave or later, a thumbnail of the screenshot appears briefly in the lower-right corner of your screen.

• Take no action or swipe the thumbnail to the right: The screenshot is automatically saved to your chosen save location, which by default is the desktop.
• Control-click the thumbnail to choose more actions, such as change the default save location, open the screenshot in an app, or delete the screenshot without saving it.

Ferd II wrote:

Perhaps I am missing something from this discussion, but when I open Screenshot from the Utilities Folder, and select "Options," this is what I see:

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/8e1a18e7-aad5-4c96-bf77-0a06e0b24251

...I just choose the "Save to" option to specify my desired location.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/073b2e2c-7651-43d2-8f39-bf2db39daf70

When you do, is there an option to "Set as default location?"

It seems that babowa's point about "permissions"

> "... I believe the User tip is outdated since you no longer have access to the System volume ..."

-- may have made the Apple Article's statement obsolete as well

> "... Control-click the thumbnail to choose more actions, such as change the default save location, open ..."

If it turns out that the preference "file" - com.apple.screencapture - cannot be edited by Terminal, it may be that the System DIALOG may not be able to do so either?

THIS old(ish) discussion describes requiring 2 steps

1. Creating a new folder AND
2. setting that folder as the default destination

Screenshots default folder change - Apple Community

Thank you - I stand corrected; I had not seen the app as I rarely open the Utilities folder (whatever I usually need is represented in the dock). Yes, it does offer the option to save elsewhere. And, after opening it, I find using Command +Shift + 4 much quicker for a screenshot on the fly. But, that is my personal opinion.

Ferd II wrote:

ChitlinsCC wrote:

When you do, is there an option to "Set as default location?"

Yes there is a "Remember Last Selection" choice.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/76bf429f-bf7c-4a68-a4a7-8f675f7661ba

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/b2b3df53-88d8-4cc4-83a8-8cbd611c10b0

I wonder if this requires choosing "Other location" (last in top secrtion) first?😁

Unfortunately, running Catalina, there is no option to change the location (despite the Apple article) - here is the menu you get when using control click on a screenshot icon:

I am not sure, but I believe the User tip is outdated since you no longer have access to the System volume - you can only write to your User folder and Finder is definitely part of the System. But, I do not have a machine where I can test that.

Perhaps I am missing something from this discussion, but when I open Screenshot from the Utilities Folder, and select "Options," this is what I see:

...I just choose the "Save to" option to specify my desired location.

You just lost me - I have no idea how to open a screenshot from the Utilities folder. My Utilities folder is in the Applications folder.

Any screenshot I have taken resides on the desktop and I simply open it from there.

And I also have no idea where the screenshot is located with those options. Not on my desktop, in Finder, or my browser.

Open the "Screenshot Application" which should be located in the Utilities Folder:

I am using Catalina.

Edit: How to take a screenshot on your Mac - Apple Support

What are the results of the ">" next to

• Share
• Quick actions
• Services

??

ChitlinsCC wrote:

When you do, is there an option to "Set as default location?"

Yes there is a "Remember Last Selection" choice.

As far as I know, you cannot. It is easy enough to rename and/or drag it somewhere else.

Lost in never never land

Those were found with trusty Google site search

#1 & #3 results

change screenshot location mac site:apple.com - Google Search

babowa wrote:

...using Command +Shift + 4 much quicker for a screenshot on the fly.

That's what I normally use. I only open the application to answer ASC questions.

😎