Comments on: Everything you need to know about customizing screen captures

By: RubberNeck Designs Mac OS: How to Change Screen Shot Save Folder

RubberNeck Designs Mac OS: How to Change Screen Shot Save Folder — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:19:26 +0000

[...] First of all, a big “thank you” to the author at snowleopardtips.net who wrote “Everything you need to know about customizing screen captures“! This very helpful article cut through the case and made changing the screen shot folder [...]

By: kthoms

kthoms — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:22:28 +0000

Thanks! This article was really useful. And also my first contact with the Automator.

By: Friend

Friend — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:49:38 +0000

Thank you – That's great !

By: Ask : iPad books, Android iTunes sync, printing without applications and more

Ask : iPad books, Android iTunes sync, printing without applications and more — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:47:00 +0000

[...] you’re referring to how OS X saves screen shots in a default .png format, check out this helpful how-to from Snow Leopard Tips. It’ll show you how to change the default (although you’ll have to use Terminal) plus a [...]

By: Pelpinda

Pelpinda — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:26:13 +0000

I rather use shotChoice to change the format of a screen capture

By: Larryt

Larryt — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:56:08 +0000

I installed this Folder Action file and it worked fine.
However after testing a Java app I am writing, a desktop shortcut to a java .jar file was renamed to Picture 1.jar! I deinstalled the folder actions file and it now works fine.
I just thought I should mention it in case someone else has an shortcut (alias) to a java .jar file.

By: Zhanzju

Zhanzju — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:58:56 +0000

no this com.apple.screencapture.plist in SL 10.6.6…

By: glenk

glenk — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:25:38 +0000

Thanks! The tip about changing the folder where screen shots are saved did the trick for me. I have posted a link to this page in forums where others are trying to hash out their screen capture problems with Snow Leopard.

By: I82Much

I82Much — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:32:52 +0000

This is perfect. I've never really used folder actions before, and this gets me back to how I like the screenshot naming.

My problem is not the long filenames, it's that when you sort them by name, things in the afternoon show up before those taken in the morning! (If they had used military time, e.g. 13 instead of 1 instead, it wouldn't be a problem). If I want date sorting, I'll sort by date. I don't need it in the filename.

By: Concertboy

Concertboy — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:50:31 +0000

That worked perfectly, thanks! I changed the folder location and the file type. Only comment for others is to make sure to use a space between the command and the type, example: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type (space) jpg.
Also, when changing the folder location, you can just drag the folder into Terminal and that will automatically put the path in.