I just did the most recent update and when my MacBook Pro restarted, every single screenshot I have ever taken appeared on my home screen. Is there a fast way to remove those screenshots all at once from the screen without slogging through and removing them one at a time? There are some screenshots I need to keep so I don't want to just delete them all.
MacBook Pro
On your Desktop, right-click and choose Use stacks from the secondary menu. Your screen shots will all be collected into a stack named Screen Shots. Click on that stack to open it, select the first screen shot, and press the space bar to display that image in a Quick Look Window. If you want to delete an image, then press cmd+backspace to move it to the Trash, and the next image will appear in Quick Look. If you want to skip over an image to save it, use the down-arrow key. Don't forget that if you accidentally delete one of these you want to keep, open the Trash folder, right-click on the redeemable image, and choose Put back.
Right-click on your Desktop and click that Use stacks menu item to disable that feature.
Empty the Trash when you are finally done.
On your Desktop, right-click and choose Use stacks from the secondary menu. Your screen shots will all be collected into a stack named Screen Shots. Click on that stack to open it, select the first screen shot, and press the space bar to display that image in a Quick Look Window. If you want to delete an image, then press cmd+backspace to move it to the Trash, and the next image will appear in Quick Look. If you want to skip over an image to save it, use the down-arrow key. Don't forget that if you accidentally delete one of these you want to keep, open the Trash folder, right-click on the redeemable image, and choose Put back.
Right-click on your Desktop and click that Use stacks menu item to disable that feature.
Empty the Trash when you are finally done.
Yes. Open a new Finder window and click on the Desktop in its sidebar. Then do a ⌘+F to start a search with this criteria: Name contains screenshot. You'll get this (I have only one screenshot on the Desktop):
Then you can do a ⌘+A (select all) and drag them to the Trash bin.
Command-click on the ones you want to delete, then click on one and drag them to the Trash.
Or… Select them all , command click on the ones you want to keep which will de-select them, drag the rest to the Trash.
Probably you should first find the ones you want to keep, and move those to a separate folder-- and maybe put that folder in your "Pictures" folder so you don't accidentally delete them.
This was the easy solution I was looking for...thank you! I had to search around for "Use Stacks." For me it was in Finder under View. Appreciate the help!
You are welcome.
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