I cannot screen shot on my mac

I am trying to take a screen shot of part of my screen, I'm still new to using my mac and a friend (and Google) told me command+shift+4 and select the portion I want to capture. This does not work it just makes a noise and does allow me to capture anything.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.1

Posted on Feb 9, 2021 2:43 PM

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Posted on Feb 9, 2021 2:58 PM

You want Shift-Command-5 for screen shots, see this


https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/take-screenshots-or-screen-recordings-mh26782/10.15/mac/10.15


which also explains what Shift-Command-4 does as well.

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Feb 10, 2021 3:45 PM in response to Becca-f

Becca-f wrote:

This does not work it just makes a noise and does allow me to capture anything.

P.S. If it makes a noise, it may be capturing the screen, is the noise like the sound of a camera shutter?


Look on your Desktop, or in the Pictures or Documents folders. If you don't see anything search in Spotlight for


Screen Shot


the file will have a name like that.

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