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MacOS: Changing screen capture location

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I make a lot of presentations that involve many screenshots, and I want an easier way to organize them by project. I'm trying to write a simple function that changes the location where screenshots are saved to the current working directory.

I've written a function in and saved it to ~/.my_custom_commands.sh.

That file currently looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

# changes location of screenshot to current directory

function shoothere() {

    defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '. '

    killall SystemUIServer

    echo 'foo'

    }

When I navigate to the directory where I want to save my screenshots and run the function, it does print foo but screenshots do not appear anywhere.

I've also tried replacing '. ' with $1 and running it as $ shoothere ., at which point I get an error Rep argument is not a dictionary. Defaults have not been changed. Googling this error message has gotten me precisely nowhere.

I'm on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.4.

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I make a lot of presentations that involve many screenshots, and I want an easier way to organize them by project. I'm trying to write a simple function that changes the location where screenshots are saved to the current working directory.

I've written a function in and saved it to ~/.my_custom_commands.sh.

That file currently looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

# changes location of screenshot to current directory

function shoothere() {

    defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '. '

    killall SystemUIServer

    echo 'foo'

    }

When I navigate to the directory where I want to save my screenshots and run the function, it does print foo but screenshots do not appear anywhere.

I've also tried replacing '. ' with $1 and running it as $ shoothere ., at which point I get an error Rep argument is not a dictionary. Defaults have not been changed. Googling this error message has gotten me precisely nowhere.

I'm on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.4.

osx function bash-functions

share|improve this question

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I make a lot of presentations that involve many screenshots, and I want an easier way to organize them by project. I'm trying to write a simple function that changes the location where screenshots are saved to the current working directory.

I've written a function in and saved it to ~/.my_custom_commands.sh.

That file currently looks like this:

#!/bin/bash

# changes location of screenshot to current directory

function shoothere() {

    defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '. '

    killall SystemUIServer

    echo 'foo'

    }

When I navigate to the directory where I want to save my screenshots and run the function, it does print foo but screenshots do not appear anywhere.

I've also tried replacing '. ' with $1 and running it as $ shoothere ., at which point I get an error Rep argument is not a dictionary. Defaults have not been changed. Googling this error message has gotten me precisely nowhere.

I'm on a Mac running Mojave 10.14.4.

osx function bash-functions

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#!/bin/bash

# changes location of screenshot to current directory

function shoothere() {

    defaults write com.apple.screencapture location '. '

    killall SystemUIServer

    echo 'foo'

    }

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This slightly different syntax appears to work for me; it's probably that . isn't correctly handled by the service MacOS has running in the background:

~/foo $ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$(pwd)"

~/foo $ defaults read com.apple.screencapture

{

    "last-messagetrace-stamp" = "576625649.15493";

    location = "/Users/[redacted]/foo";

}

To reset it back to default, you can use this:

$ defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location

killall SystemUIServer is not necessary at all, as soon as I ran the defaults write command, I was able to observe newly-captured screenshots appearing in the correct directory.

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  yes! thank you so much. works perfectly now.
  
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  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

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This slightly different syntax appears to work for me; it's probably that . isn't correctly handled by the service MacOS has running in the background:

~/foo $ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$(pwd)"

~/foo $ defaults read com.apple.screencapture

{

    "last-messagetrace-stamp" = "576625649.15493";

    location = "/Users/[redacted]/foo";

}

To reset it back to default, you can use this:

$ defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location

killall SystemUIServer is not necessary at all, as soon as I ran the defaults write command, I was able to observe newly-captured screenshots appearing in the correct directory.

share|improve this answer

answered 8 hours ago

DopeGhotiDopeGhoti

47.1k56190

• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  yes! thank you so much. works perfectly now.
  
  – condenastee
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

0

This slightly different syntax appears to work for me; it's probably that . isn't correctly handled by the service MacOS has running in the background:

~/foo $ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$(pwd)"

~/foo $ defaults read com.apple.screencapture

{

    "last-messagetrace-stamp" = "576625649.15493";

    location = "/Users/[redacted]/foo";

}

To reset it back to default, you can use this:

$ defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location

killall SystemUIServer is not necessary at all, as soon as I ran the defaults write command, I was able to observe newly-captured screenshots appearing in the correct directory.

share|improve this answer

answered 8 hours ago

DopeGhotiDopeGhoti

47.1k56190

• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  yes! thank you so much. works perfectly now.
  
  – condenastee
  8 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

This slightly different syntax appears to work for me; it's probably that . isn't correctly handled by the service MacOS has running in the background:

~/foo $ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$(pwd)"

~/foo $ defaults read com.apple.screencapture

{

    "last-messagetrace-stamp" = "576625649.15493";

    location = "/Users/[redacted]/foo";

}

To reset it back to default, you can use this:

$ defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location

killall SystemUIServer is not necessary at all, as soon as I ran the defaults write command, I was able to observe newly-captured screenshots appearing in the correct directory.

share|improve this answer

answered 8 hours ago

DopeGhotiDopeGhoti

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~/foo $ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$(pwd)"

~/foo $ defaults read com.apple.screencapture

{

    "last-messagetrace-stamp" = "576625649.15493";

    location = "/Users/[redacted]/foo";

}

$ defaults delete com.apple.screencapture location

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answered 8 hours ago

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answered 8 hours ago

DopeGhotiDopeGhoti

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answered 8 hours ago

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