Image capture won't save last used settings. Folder destination , scan name. Any way to fix that? It worked fine with Mavericks.. Not anymore...

I'm having this same exact issue. It's really frustrating and time consuming as I scan documents every day as well. Not sure what would have made this change, but I would like it fixed sooner than later. At least a way to set default settings or something. Anyone?

Same issue here.

same here. Most annoying. Hope the fix is in the mail.

I had the same problem.

Got a 90% fix. Apparently the Mavericks preferences won't work with Yosemite, so I just deleted the Image Capture preferences.

Unfortunately, the "Scan to" folder seems to be permanently set to the Pictures folder.

1. Quit Image Capture

2. Go to Finder > Go > Home, which opens up your home folder (named after your user name)

3. Open Library > Preferences > com.apple.ImageCapture.plist - Drag this file to the Trash

4. Start "Image Capture", click "Details" and change all your settings as you prefer

5. Quit and restart "Image Capture". Notice it remembers all your settings except "Scan to" folder. It insists on saving to "Pictures".

That's as far as I was successful. I tried changing the "Scan to" folder to "Desktop", but on launch, Image Capture always sets it back to "Pictures".

This is what I tried:

6. Download and install "Pref Setter" from http://www.nightproductions.net/prefsetter.html

7. Quit "Image Capture". Right-click on "com.apple.ImageCapture.plist" and open with Pref Setter.

8. Search for "Pictures", which finds "~/Pictures" (the tilde character at the start means your home directory).

9. Double-click on "~/Pictures" and change it to the folder you prefer. I like "~/Desktop"

10. Choose File > Save then Quit from Pref Setter. Note that re-opening the plist file still shows "~/Desktop"

11. Start up "Image Capture" -- on startup, "Image Capture" sets "Scan to" folder to "Pictures"

I consider this a bug.

does exactly what you say

the default name of "Scan" is also shown in the plist but changing the plist entry does not change the default name

umm, looks as if rebooting strips the user settings and the default settings are reentered.

interesting twist

just for fun I opened Image Capture, set the file name and preferences, and then deleted the plist file, then quit Image Capture. On reopening Image Capture my entered file name and settings --- EXCEPT for the folder -- were carried over.

Have the same problem, so I've setup a rule in Hazel so that new scans arriving in the Pictures folder are moved to the folder I really want them to be in.

That's good enough for me (until Apple fix this bug).

With a little more effort, I suppose I could extend the rules so that (for example) new scans with particular prefix could be moved to different folders, controlled by the value of that prefix and have the prefix removed as part of that move. Pretty clunky, but viable I think.

I have the same problem, with a slight positive twist. When I change any settings other than the Scan to folder, the settings are preserved, even across a restart. For me, the only setting that is not preserved is the Scan to folder. That's still mighty annoying; I have no use for the Pictures folder. I just want to scan to the desktop.

For what it's worth, this is a clean install of Yosemite 10.10 upgraded to 10.10.1 on a brand new mid-2014 15" MacBook Pro. This machine has not seen Mavericks while I've owned it.

Same as the other people here - Image Capture used to save settings, now it doesn't. I'd love to see a fix for this issue.

I was hoping that the 10.10.2 update would fix this issue, but it did not.

Apple, are you aware of this issue?

Does anyone from Apple read these forums? This problem has gone on way too long, as have others...

Does anyone from Apple read these forums? This problem has gone on way too long, as have others...

Not particularly. It is a User to User forum, primarily.

All the setting stick for me. They have as long as I can remember.

You must use the detailed view to have them stick.

If they are not, try deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Image_Capture.plist

It will be recreated when you open Image Capture again, and, perhaps the settings will stick.

Alas, it still reverts to the Pictures folder (I wanted Desktop).

I never had any trouble with Image Capture before upgrading to Yosemite. <sigh>

j&#39;ski wrote:

Alas, it still reverts to the Pictures folder (I wanted Desktop).

I never had any trouble with Image Capture before upgrading to Yosemite. <sigh>

Are you using the Detailed view or the simple view? I think the simple view is just that, simple

Ah,yes, I should have mentioned that. I always use Detailed view...