Change the Default Screenshot Location

One thing I've grown to dislike about taking screenshots is the fact that when I take a lot of screen shots, it fills up my desktop. Then, I have to take all the screenshots I just took and put them into a folder. Well, not any more! Using a simple Terminal command I found at MacOSXHints.com, I can now have my screenshots be placed in my (Home)»Pictures»Screenshots» folder. Here it is:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/Path/To/Folder

Using this, we can simply copy everything before the first "/" and paste it into the Terminal. Then, make a new folder and drag it to the terminal window so that you have something like:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/oliver/Pictures/Screenshots

Then, restart your mac and all your screenshots will be taken to that location!