Pre-Mojave it wasn’t quite so easy to tell macOS to save screenshots somewhere else: in a folder labelled Screengrabs, for example. How to change where Mac screenshots are saved in older macOS versions

Once you have changed the location that is where your screenshots will go until you change the location again.Īs well as your self-defined ‘Other Location’ you can choose from the following: Desktop, Documents, Clipboard, Mail, Messages, Preview.

If you choose Other Location you can navigate to the folder you wish the screenshot to go to, or create a folder if required.

Now either pick a folder that is listed, or choose Other Location.

If you have macOS Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur or Monterey installed it is very easy to change where screenshots are saved.

How to change screenshot location on a Mac Grab usually saved screenshots to your Documents folder, and if you didn’t change the name of the image it was save as Untitled. Grab (which was located in a Utilities folder in the Applications folder) could be used to take screenshots.

If you haven’t installed macOS 10.14 Mojave or later on your Mac (Mojave arrived in 2018) you will have a screenshotting app called Grab available.

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