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adamjh
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Dec 19, 2006, 03:13 PM
 
When I do command+shift+4 to do a screen capture, can I specify a folder for these to land in or must they all land on my desktop? I take a ton of these and my desktop gets cluttered fast!
     
Warhaven
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Dec 19, 2006, 03:26 PM
 
Yes. You can set the default location in the Screenshots preference pane.

     
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Dec 19, 2006, 03:44 PM
 
You would have to tell us where you got the Screenshots preference pane.
     
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Dec 19, 2006, 03:47 PM
 
It appears to be a $2 piece of shareware. ...And it looks like it's Tiger-only, as the ability to change the screenshot file format is apparenty a Tiger feature. Bummer.
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adamjh  (op)
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Dec 19, 2006, 04:02 PM
 
Someone on another forum pointed me to this script, which appears to solve my problem:

ScriptBuilders: Screenshot Settings 1.1
     
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Dec 19, 2006, 04:32 PM
 
My bad. I was going off my work computer. Apparently, they have the screen shot preference thingy installed. I thought it was standard.
     
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Dec 20, 2006, 10:00 PM
 
Alternatively, you can also use something like Onyx to specify the default save path.



OnyX 1.7.5 - MacUpdate
     
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Dec 20, 2006, 10:07 PM
 
Second the suggestion to use OnyX!
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Dec 21, 2006, 06:13 PM
 
I must be blind - I looked for that setting in OnyX, and couldn't find it for the life of me. I am running Panther though - is that screenshot from the Tiger version?
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Dec 21, 2006, 07:23 PM
 
Originally Posted by shifuimam View Post
I must be blind - I looked for that setting in OnyX, and couldn't find it for the life of me. I am running Panther though - is that screenshot from the Tiger version?
I think you answered your own question earlier.

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Dec 21, 2006, 11:09 PM
 
Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - View Post
I think you answered your own question earlier.
Well, you never know...I thought there was a chance that is was something a tweak app like OnyX could change, even if Grab didn't support it...
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Dec 22, 2006, 03:43 AM
 
If you use Grab to take your screenshots instead of the keyboard shortcuts, you can specify where to save the resultant file and the format.
     
   
 
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