Delay after taking screenshot - how to turn off?

I can confirm what dialabrain stated with respect to the floating thumbnail.

The file doesn't seem to be written until the floating thumbnail disappears.

So, turn off the Floating Thumbnail in the Options in order to have the file written immediately.

Old Toad wrote:

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As I mentioned above, I have virtually zero delay. Some small fraction of a second technically.

That 5 and 10 seconds is the delay between selecting the area to record and starting the recording or taking the screen shot and is only active when your use the Shift+Command+5 key combination. When set to None it's still 5 seconds after the screenshot is taken and saved to the Desktop. That delay is to give the user time to go to the lower right hand corner so they can edit/annotate the screenshot if desired.

At least that's what I'm experiencing.

I thought that's what you meant but you never know around here. :)

I have no delay saving to the Desktop. I do have Show Floating Thumbnail disabled. Do you have an anitivirus app or CleanMyMac installed?

Piotr Kowal wrote:

Same here - so the issue is that after the screenshot is already taken, the file needs additional time to show up in the folder, and I already have the folder open and need to wait, several times a day... I want to cut the wait.

Just to clarify, if you disable "Show Floating Thumbnail" in Options, you should have no delay to speak of.

Old Toad wrote:

So it only stays in the lower right hand corner for a fraction of a second before appearing in the designated saving folder?

No. It doesn't appear at all.

If you want to annotate it how do you go about it?

I suppose I would send it to Preview first.

Barney-15E wrote:

I can confirm what dialabrain stated with respect to the floating thumbnail.

The file doesn't seem to be written until the floating thumbnail disappears.

So, turn off the Floating Thumbnail in the Options in order to have the file written immediately.

That's it! Didn't see that option below the times listed. Thanks. Learn something new here every day.

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Press command shift 5, make sure "Timer" is set to None in Options.

So it only stays in the lower right hand corner for a fraction of a second before appearing in the designated saving folder?

If you want to annotate it how do you go about it?

Old Toad wrote:

That's it! Didn't see that option below the times listed. Thanks. Learn something new here every day.

Oh sure. Don't listen to me the first two times I said it. lol

Congrats. 😎

I only listen to my elders, not you whippersnappers.

As I've said previously, a number of topics before, I'm getting old and missing more and more the first time thru.