Saving Screenshots - location

I have the similar issue. Here how I fixed it.
When you touch the screenshot icon on touchbar, there is a button: `Save To`. Change it from Preview to Desktop. After that, it will save to the location you provided by the command: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location

Hopefully this will solve your issue.

Sounds like you are saving to the clipboard. Clipboard only holds one image.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361

How to take a screenshot of the Touch Bar

If you have a Mac with a Touch Bar and macOS Sierra 10.12.2:

1. Press Shift-Command-6.
2. Find the screenshot as a .png file on your desktop.

I posted everything you need above—

From terminal you can change the location ex: Desktop

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop

How to Change Screenshot Save Location

If in doubt of the correct path to "your folder," open terminal copy and paste:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location

including the space at the end, then drag "your folder" to the terminal window and it will complete the path for the full command.

Finally found the solution.

1. enter cmd+shift+4
2. select save to option on the touch bar.
3. select desktop

screenshots now saves to desktop only!

What exactly do you mean by the "the screenshot / grabber utility"?

That command only changes the default save path for using the keyboard shortcuts Command-Shift-3, Command-Shift-4, Command-Shift-4 then space.

If using the "Grab.app" then it should prompt for a save path every time. I would guess that you can set the default path for the "Grab.app" save location by opening "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Grab.plist" in a text editor and modifying a path in there. I'm just guessing but it may work.

I found that it works fine if you don't add:

killall SystemUIServer

So all I typed was:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/SCREENSHOTS/

...and it saved the screenshots to the designated folder. If I typed the "killall" line it saved them to the desktop.

Whether omitting the "killall" line presents other problems, only time will tell...

That does not change the location of where my screenshots are saving and in fact they are NOT saving, because I could take a screenshot, save it to the default 'tmp' folder and then search my entire hard disk for that single saved file and not find it.

I realized tonight I was having the same issue on my MBP with touch bar that I just got. On my old machine, I had specified a custom location with the 'defaults write...' command that is common. I saw the screenshot tool for the touch bar and thought I would try it out. I changed the location with the buttons in that tool, then realized I couldn't set a custom one there, so I removed the button from the touch bar. When I tried to change back to the custom location with the terminal command, it wouldn't work. Screenshots kept going into ~/Documents. Just now, I went back in to the touch bar tool, and selected 'Desktop' as the save location (the old default?), and screenshots are now going back into my custom folder. So maybe try that?

I had the same issue and resolved it with 2 commands:

sudo defaults write com.apple.screencapture location -string "~/Users/[USERNAME]/[DIRECTORY]"

where [USERNAME] and [DIRECTORY] are your own username and target location, respectively. Afterwards, the line

sudo killall SystemUIServer Finder

resulted in screenshots being saved to my target directory. Unsure why Sierra now requires specifying "-string", but I hope this works for you as well

The "defaults write..." command worked for me until I didn't include the "~" at the beginning of the path.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/myName/Pictures/Screenshots/

then run the

killall SystemUIServer

I'm running macOS Sierra version 10.12.6 I did the following and it worked for me(I didn't use ~ for location path).

command line:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/secretcollage/Desktop/Screenshot

press enter

killall SystemUIServer

press enter

end of command line

test by taking a screenshot, check to see the most recent screenshot is in the folder.

Hope this helps!

From terminal you can change the location ex: Desktop

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop

How to Change Screenshot Save Location