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Logged on as root user, and screenshots do not seem to be written to disk (no Desktop in hidden home directory). Where do they go?
MacBook Air
el7 wrote:
Logged on as root user, and screenshots do not seem to be written to disk (no Desktop in hidden home directory). Where do they go?
Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac - Apple Support
Launch the Screenshot app directly, not by the shortcut keystroke, and click on the Options button. That will tell you where the screenshots are currently being saved and you can change it to the Desktop if desired:
To make the user library visible go to your Home folder and bring up the View ➙ Show View Options menu item. There you can check the box to make the library visible.
Thanks for your help, and the work you've done in this beautiful and coherent presentation.
My Screenshot.app does have the Desktop as the default, but again, there is no Desktop for root user, so the screenshots seem to disappear into the ether. Try it. A "find file" cannot locate them.
I fixed the anomaly merely by adding a "Desktop" folder to the root home directory. Screenshot.app immediately started dropping screenshots into there, instead of putting them nowhere. Catalina must be fuming at me for this small expression of freedom. I'm sure she'll get back at me somehow, unfortunately.
The view option to show library is my default, but nonetheless, the root's home is an invisible path, startupVolume:private:var:root:.
el7
"Package rage" is the answer to your question. Catalina is an endless odyssey of package rage.
How many products do you buy, which intentionally keep you from using them vast portions of them, as does Catalina? Root user has a little more access to my own data, than just a sinecure, like administrator.
In 1984's computer for the rest of us, when Mscintosh freed us from command-line dirigisme with the GUI interface, I don't think it was Steve Jobs' plan for it to devolve into a Byzantine bureaucracy, like Catalina.
Root user has a little more access to my own data, than just a sinecure, like administrator.
I have complete and total access to all of my data and I can do that from a standard user.
You should try to calm the rage in your package.
I had data like that once, in the days of floppy disks.
I'm not sure what is confusing you about Catalina, but it doesn't hold your data hostage or prevent access to it.
You're going to have to figure out a way to explain what it is that you can't do with your data.
I have as much access to my home that the root user has. Logging in as root would not provide me any more access than I have as a standard user.
Catalina is not designed to be used by root as no user has write access anywhere other than HD Data.
Why do you need root?
You can always downgrade to an earlier version to avoid "Byzantine bureaucracy".
Not with the new Macbooks
I had data like that once, in the days of floppy disks.
Just accept that an OS that keeps you out of the system files will keep out the bad guys too
el7 wrote:
Not with the new Macbooks
True enough if it's new enough to come with Catalina preinstalled.
Log on as root user, and screenshots do not seem to be written to disk (no Desktop in hidden home directorcy). Where do they go?
