screen capture location ?

[mac_shinobi]

I have tried the relevant commands from terminal to change / update the location of where screen captures go yet it doesn't make any difference, they keep going into a folder either in my documents or on the desktop named "original images"

 

either

 

sudo defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop

 

OR

 

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Users//Desktop

 

then the

 

killall SystemUIServer

 

and try again to do a screen grab and it goes to the desktop for about 3 seconds and then vanishes back into the folder and off the desktop

 

What am I doing wrong ??

[FN-GM]

I have dont it. I used Onyx. Go into the Parameters tab and it is in there. It will let you set the default name, file format and location.

 

Easy, not need to mess about in terminal.

[Arthur]

You have to use the full path for it to work i.e. do not use ~.

 

sudo defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/MacShinobi/Desktop

[mac_shinobi]

Tried all of those and then remembered I had set a folder action on the said folder, disabled the folder action and it now works fine

 

Thanks :-)

 

Hate to say it but this was user error, doh !!