How To Change the ScreenShot Save File Location in OS X 10.10 Yosemite

By default, anytime you take a screen capture in Mac OS X it will save the screen shot file to the current users desktop.

You can adjust where Mac OS X saves a captured screenshot to any other location, here is how to do this.

 

• Launch Terminal and insert this command

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /path/

Replace path with your desired folder. For example, if you want to have the screen shots appear in Downloads folder, use this:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Downloads/

 

• For immediately effect  of changes use this command:

killall SystemUIServer

 

So the next time you take a screenshot file will appear at the location you specified.

• You can change the saved screenshot location back to the default setting by specifying the desktop again:

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

 

• And don’t forget to apply  this command for immediatly effect of changes:

killall SystemUIServer

 

See Also:

How to create Screenshot (print screen) on OS X 10.10 Yosemite

How To Auto-Upload Screenshots With Dropbox & Easily Share Them