Screenshot filename in Lion

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Screenshot filename in Lion

Hi,

Anyone knows a way to rename the filename of screenshots in Lion?

I'm talking about the part that comes after the prefix, that can be changed via;

defaults write com.apple.screencapture name NEWPREFIX

In Snow Leopard, this was achieved by chaning a line in the following file;

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings

This is no longer possible, as the value isn't present in this file anymore. The .strings-file have also been changed from a plain text file, to a binary plist file since Snow Leopard.

The reason I want to change this, is to avoid spaces in the file name. I know that some of you use scripts that goes through the screenshot-folder to rename, but was hoping to avoid this.

Anyone knows of a way to change this in Lion?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), Mid-2009, 2.8 GHz, 8GB RAM

Posted on Jul 26, 2011 12:04 PM

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jallakim Author

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Jul 26, 2011 6:40 PM in response to jallakim

So, I've solved this temporarily by using a short bash-script that I run whenever I take a screenshot;

#!/bin/bash

DIR_TO_FIX=~/Pictures/Screendumps

ls -1 $DIR_TO_FIX | while read file; do
   if echo "$file" | grep -qE "^dump[ ]+"; then
      NEW_FILENAME=`echo "$file"|perl -wple 's, at , ,g;s,\s+,_,g'`
      mv -n "$DIR_TO_FIX/$file" "$DIR_TO_FIX/$NEW_FILENAME"
   fi
done

Still hoping to find a proper fix for this, though.

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fu-jyh

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Sep 14, 2011 10:56 AM in response to jallakim

Hi,

I did following steps to change default screenshoot filename

$ sudo su

# cd /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Resources/English.lpro j

# plutil -convert xml1 ScreenCapture.strings

# vi ScreenCapture.strings

change

to

<string>Pictures</string>

# plutil -convert binary1 ScreenCapture.strings

# killall SystemUIServer

You can replace "Pictures" to whatever you like.

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jallakim Author

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Sep 14, 2011 11:59 PM in response to fu-jyh

Genious! Thanks!

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