Home / How Do I / How do I change the default location of screenshots on the Mac?
To take a quick screenshot on the Mac you can use key combination + + . There are other shortcuts too. But whatever you use, the screenshot will be saved on the Mac Desktop as a png image file by default.
This default location of the saved Mac screenshots is fine for most people. However, those of us who routinely take screenshots, will end up with a super-cluttered desktop which can be quite distracting… and messy!
The solution is to change the default location in which the Mac stores the screenshots and here is how you go about it.
To revert to the default, issue:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop
Followed by:
killall SystemUIServer
Let me know how this has worked for you or if you have something that I can add so that it helps others.
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