Change screen capture’s default file type and path

Do you use screen capture feature on your mac? How do you feel when you need to take many screen captures to embed into your presentations or some other use and it makes your desktop cluttered. Run following command in the Terminal window to change the default path of screen capture. You can find Terminal application in Utility folder.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location path

e.g. defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/amit/Desktop/ScreenCaptures

And to change the default file type run following command.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type format

e.g. defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf

In fact these commands make entries in com.apple.screencapture.plist file. This file can be found in ~/Library/Preferences/ folder.

Changes may not reflect until logout and login again

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