I want it to offer me the desktop, instead of the documents folder, to make it easier to locate the folder I want to save various files in.
Mojave 10.14.6
Mac Mini (late 2014)
You can't really close it, you can mark a post solved, even your own to slow down replies.
I wonder if Default Folder X would help, you can add any locations to the Side bar for wasy navigation in the Save Dialog...
Default Folder X (stclairsoft.com)
How I get around that is Taking the screen shots to the Copy Buffer, for instance Shift+Ctrl+CMD+4 to copy a section to the copy buffer, then since I always have Graphic Converter open I click on it's Dock Icon then do a CMD.+j, which opens a window with that capture, then I can manipulate, annotate, resize, or what ever & dave as any name to any location I want.
I apologize not fully awake & didn't fully understand what you wanted. :)
I'll add a few (more) shortcuts on the side bar myself. Thank you. Have a nice weekend!
Hi, I won't be saving them on the desktop. I want to get to the desktop faster to save them to their respective folders. Sometimes I take screenshots for a project I'm working on, and when I save the screenshots in preview, they go off into the wild! LOL! Any advice, please? Thank you for the reply.
(accidentally marked my post as helpful. sorry. I then marked yours as helpful)
How are you taking the screen shots exactly?
Normally Screenshots (command+shift+3) are saved to the desktop by default.
If using command+shift+5 you can select the location under the Options menu: Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac - Apple Support
When using Preview however and saving a file it is saved to the location the file was in when opened.
Alternatively, you can hold down the option key when going into the File menu and a Save As option will be available. It will let you select a location to save the file in.
I'm not just talking about screenshots and preview. I'm talking about when I save a new textedit or a new spreadsheet and on and on. Preview was an example. If I'm already in the folder, the file goes to it, but if I'm working on other things and have saved them, when I come back to save something in the proper folder, it defaults to documents.
It's frustrating but if there's no simple fix, I'll forget it. I'm working on images, spreadsheets, descriptions in textedit and creating labels so it seems as if when I go back to where I was, the file saving system gets confused. :)
Thank you. So should I drop this idea?
Also, I just took a screenshot and did nothing. Then I took another one the way I like to take them, which is Command+shift+4, and opened it with preview. I went to finder and saw the first screenshot on the desktop. That's not what I'm trying to get at. I immediately rename screenshots so I know what they are.
You and I were posting at the same time. Don't worry, I'm not fully awake yet either. :)
I just opened a new textedit file and it brought me to documents again. I took a screenshot of that and can't find it. Still looking. This is why I wanted to fix this issue.
This is what I mean. I created a textedit document. I clicked to rename and save it and it brought me to my Dymo label printer folder that I used 3 hours ago. That folder has been closed for 3 hours.
This is a screenshot of where the file landed. It should have gone at least to the folder I was working in for the past hour. Am I missing something?
I want to resolve this but I'm getting puppy dog eyes from my dog who wants his walk. :) Thank you so much for the help!
Of course I know how to do that. I wanted to fix the behavior of files trying to go to the wrong destinations.
I give up. Thank you for the help.
if there's a way to close this question please let me know. Have a great weekend!
You could do it, but I recommend not doing it as they consume far more resources on the Desktop than in Documents.
In Your Pic, click on the ↕️ after DYMO Label Software to choose a different path.
Great, take care my friend. :)
You, too!
How do I change the default save location folder from documents to my desktop for all file types?
