I like to use Command-Shift-4 to take a screenshot of a selection on my screen, and it saves a .png to my desktop. Is there a way to specify another place to save them, like a specific FOLDER on my desktop?
Another method for capturing screen shots in Mac OS X is by using the bundled Apple utility, Grab, located in the Applications > Utilities folder, that allows you to save it wherever you want.
Grab works, but it's a little click intensive. The widget you recommended is closer to what I'd like; still, open the Dash, wait for the widget to load, click, click, click. The beauty of the Command-Shift-4 combo is it's speed. If I could just change the default save location to a place I choose instead of the desktop. Is there something to tweak via the terminal?
Sorry, I haven't found a way to do that, but I suspect that AppleScript could be invoked in some way to do it, or maybe just watch folders and move any .png on the Desktop to where ever you wish.
Seems the further we go with OSX, the fewer options in our control. 😟
Your keystrokes execute 'screencapture ~/Desktop. You can replace ~/Desktop with any file. I keep the Terminal in my dock; but if you program in any Unix script, plenty of opportunities abound.
Screencapture captures the Terminal as well, so it needs to be executed by some keystrokes. That's an Apple 'thing' that will take some research. Until then, this may help. It's fine to make one copy with software downloaded from outside the U.S.
The trouble with this is that the Terminal window is captured with the whole screen. I see there's supposed to be an easy way, using two Darwin commands; and I'm not an Apple specialist.
The Darwin command 'screencapture' can be combined with the new 'tcsh' shell script command 'bindkey' to create a short, one-line command that can be inserted once, into the initialization file .tcshrc.
Thereafter, one assigns that key combination to overwrite Picture.png in any Folder. An experienced programmer can assign numbers to the pictures with global variables. Because I don't know the consequence of switching scripts from bash to tcsh, and my health is bad, I think I'll have to leave this question to a helpful Apple programmer.
Download the current version of the excellent freeware utility [TinkerTool|http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html].
It's General tab allows you to easily change both the target folder and the graphics format for your screenshots. You need to log out/in or restart afterward for the changes to take effect.
