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Sorry- another-- need help with file path-- trying to change default screenshot location
Posted by: Black
Date: April 14, 2012 12:22AM
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Re: Sorry- another-- need help with file path-- trying to change default screenshot location
Posted by: space-time
Date: April 14, 2012 06:32AM
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Re: Sorry- another-- need help with file path-- trying to change default screenshot location
Posted by: TheCaber
Date: April 14, 2012 06:43AM
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Black
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I want the files to go to a folder called Screenshots that's in the Documents folder of my Home folder. There's also an alias on the desktop that it could point to.
What would the path be?
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/{shortname}/Documents/Screenshots
Re: Sorry- another-- need help with file path-- trying to change default screenshot location
Posted by: Black
Date: April 14, 2012 07:30AM
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TheCaber
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Black
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I want the files to go to a folder called Screenshots that's in the Documents folder of my Home folder. There's also an alias on the desktop that it could point to.
What would the path be?
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /
Try:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/{shortname}/Documents/Screenshots
where {shortname} is the name for your home directory that appears in your boot volume's /Users directory.
That should do it for you.
Re: Sorry- another-- need help with file path-- trying to change default screenshot location
Posted by: Black
Date: April 14, 2012 07:31AM
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space-time
did you log out?
Re: Sorry- another-- need help with file path-- trying to change default screenshot location
Posted by: bik
Date: April 14, 2012 10:06AM
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Re: Sorry- another-- need help with file path-- trying to change default screenshot location
Posted by: Chakravartin
Date: April 14, 2012 11:25AM
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Re: Sorry- another-- need help with file path-- trying to change default screenshot location
Posted by: Black
Date: April 14, 2012 04:48PM
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bik
This may be one of those situations where you need symbolic links instead of aliases.
If you need to tell the terminal to tell the OS where to go, there is a good chance that an alias in the path won't work.
Something like this may help.
[www.macupdate.com]
Re: Sorry- another-- need help with file path-- trying to change default screenshot location
Posted by: Black
Date: April 14, 2012 05:07PM
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Chakravartin
The target folder is on the hard drive? Then use the full path to the folder on the hard drive including the /Volumes preface.
Something like this:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Volumes/{name of hard drive}/Users/{shortname}/Documents/Screenshots
Re: Sorry- another-- need help with file path-- trying to change default screenshot location
Posted by: Black
Date: April 14, 2012 05:15PM
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