Mac mini 2024 Sequoia Screenshot not saved directly to external hard drive?

I tried setting the default location for saving screenshots to one of my several external SSDs and could not. It would not let me choose any location other than on the boot drive. It appears that screenshots an only be saved to the boot drive.

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Constitution1791 wrote:

I'd appreciate a solution or explanation of what is happening!

I can't say but it apparently affects any external drive. I tried a flash drive formatted as ExFAT & APFS and it will not automatically save a screenshot to it.

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Hey there!

I’m not able to test at the moment, but according to what Dialabrain mentioned, this may be happening to anyone or everyone.

Dialabrain mentioned the format or their drive, can you please say the format of yours?

Likewise do you have another external drive or Mac to test this with?

My first instinct was to delete the screen capture plist > restart and test.

I believe it’s still in the same spot, open Finder, while holding Option, choose Go > Library, from there open Preferences, delete any “com.Apple.screen capture.plist”’s…..you may even check ~/Preferences/ByHost for this/these files, delete them, restart and test.

Not too sure off hand if there is a system wide plist for this, but I’d also check for, and delete it from Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences, if there.

Likewise, for some reason Spotlight comes to mind…..perhaps you can test in another user account as well, just to narrow it down, if it is system wide, perhaps the file system needs to be repaired:

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Perhaps the internal drive as well as the external, ((If other external drives aren’t affected of course).

Hope something here helps!