[moep]

I utilize cmd-shift-4 quite often and then drag the resulting image into my “Stuff” folder to to archive it after I am done with my screenshot.

The problem is that this folder already contains at least one Picture 1.png or Picture 2.png so I have to rename it to something random before I drag it into the folder.

Since that’s pretty annoying I wonder if there’s a way to make OS X give the recorded screenshots a random name — something like “ak2xjbs.png” instead of “Picture 1.png” would do just fine.

I’ve found Sharpshooter which would at least speed up the renaming process a bit but I’m going to pay $15 for that application.

[seanc]

Why not just set your screenshots to automatically go into a screenshots folder? This way it will always name it the next picture X.extension name.

You can use Onyx to change the location.

[moep]

I’ve done that now although I would have preferred the random name.
Thanks.

[Big Mac]

I made an Automator action to append the filename with the date it was created to solve that problem.

[GSixZero]

Originally Posted by Big Mac 

I made an Automator action to append the filename with the date it was created to solve that problem.

Would you mind elaborating on how you did this? I poked through Automater a little and didn't find anything specially pertinent to screen caps.

[Jens_]

Had the same problem

Here is what I did to solve it with Automator.


Save As


Enable it


Hope it helps.

[moep]

Originally Posted by Jens_ 

Had the same problem

Here is what I did to solve it with Automator.
Save As
Enable it
Hope it helps.

Sweet, thanks a lot!

Update: I’ve actually managed to modify the script so it renames it to a pseudorandom name and it works great.
If anyone is interested in the steps needed to have the above Folderaction rename screenshots to a random name with letters from A-z I can put the steps up here.
Once again thanks for pointing out the Folderaction/Automator approach, Jens.

[NobleMatt]

you could actually go one step further and create an action to take the screen shot, save to location x and change the name, so it did it everything you took a screen shot, wouldnt have to run the action afterwards