Changing the Default Location for Screen Shots in Mac OS X

If you like the feature of taking screenshots of your screen, then you can appreciate the problem of having to clean-up the desktop after weeks of neglect.

Here’s a nifty little Terminal command to change the location of the default folder:

z:~ userID$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/Path/To/Folder

If you want to place your screenshots into your Pictures folder, here’s the command line where [....] is your user name:

z:~ userID$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /users/[....]/Pictures/

You can add another layer of folders by creating a subfolder in your pictures folder called “Screenshots” and add that to the command line.