Where are screen shots? 10.8

where are screen shots? 10.8

Thanks. Make sure your system volume is audible so that you can hear the "camera shutter" sound.
Open Terminal again and type the following, one line at a time, and press the Return key at the end of each one:
cd ~/Desktop
screencapture test
You may see a couple of warning messages appear. Ignore them.
Do you hear the "camera shutter" sound, and does a file named "test" appear on your Desktop, and does it look like this?
Open it. It should open Preview with a picture of your screen.
Close Preview and drag the "test" file to the Trash.

Similar Messages

Where are screen shots in Mavericks?

Cannot find screen shots

OK, if the default location was the Desktop, then I don't remember that, since I long ago changed where they go using this Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "path to where you want them saved"
Easiest way to get the path is to create the folder you want them to go to, copy&paste everything preceeding the quoted part, and then drag the folder into the Terminal window. That'll inseert the path. Ensure that there's a space between location and the path.
As for finding the screenshots, you must ensure that system files are added to Spotlight's search criteria. Search for "Screen shot".

Where Awesome screen shot files are saved

I want to know where to find my screen shot file?

Nalin probably means the Safari extension Awesome Screenshot.
When you make a screenshot from a webpage, a page should appear with a message like this:
Congrats! Here is your screenshot.
But perhaps the extension isn't working well anymore.

Where do screen shots get stored on a Mac Book?

I've been using command-control-shift-4 but then I get the camera noise and I have no idea where the photo ends up.

"it should be on your desktop after taking the screen shot."
In a file named Screen Shot .. followed by the date and time of the screen shot.
Good luck,
Ray

App store icon graphics gone, so are screen shots. Updates page looks like it's not properly loaded - just text, no icons and no 'install' option. Can anyone help?

It happened after i did a load of updates. Icons are now missing - not a huge problem because they still download (just nice to get a glimpse of what i'm buying - there's no screenshots any more either).
Updates page doesn't look like it's loaded properly - just a load of text down left side, no images and no option to install updates.
I've done a hard restart and it hasn't helped. I'm hoping i don't need to do something more drastic...?

You could try "buying" a free app, which might help to reset things?

HT201250 Where are the Time Machine step by step instructions?

I'm looking for the screen shots of how to even start setting up the time machine. I see the instructions for once you get there, but it doesn't do me any good if it can't show me how to start. This should be easy to pull up. This is a Mac. This should be fairly straightforward. Right? So, why no instuctions on how to start Time Machine, its options, settings, and all that?

System Preferences. Time Machine.
System Preferences is something you should know about if you do not. You can access it from the Apple Menu, and it is a default item in the Dock.
I have no idea where there are screen shots.
There's one slider and two buttons. Not really a lot to look at, or be confused by.
The slider says ON and OFF.
One button says "Select Disk"
The other says "Options..."
If you wish to select a disk, choose "Options..."
Just kidding.
There are no "magical options."
For Step by step instructions:
To turn on Time Machine:
1. Slide switch to On.
To turn off Time Machine:
1. Slide switch to Off
To select a disk to use:
1. Click Select Disk.
2. Select a Disk.
To Remove a Disk:
1. Click Select Disk.
2. Select Disk.
3. Click Remove Disk.
To exclude Items:
1. Click Options...
2. Click Add ( + ) button.
3. Select folder to exclude.
4. Click Save.
To remove items from exclusion:
1. Click Options...
2. Select item
3. Click Remove ( - ) button.
4. Click Save.

I am running Yosemite 10.10.1 and I cannot find my screen shots. They used to save to my desktop.

Please could you tell me where my screen shots are stored. when i use cmd+ctrl+shift+3 i hear the capture sound, but cannot find the picture. where is it stored?

The default location is your Desktop. If they're not going there, you can choose any other location by running this command in the Terminal and restarting.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location <path to the new location>
E.g., if you want them put into a subfolder named ScrnShts inside your user's Documents folder, the path (w/o brackets) would be:
/Users/"username"/Documents/ScrnShts
You have to substitute username for the actual username, w/o quotes, If the user's name was wootts, then the command would be:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/wootts/Documents/ScrnShts
27" i7 iMac (Mid 2011) refurb, OS X Yo (10.10.1), Mavs, ML & SL, G4 450 MP w/10.5 & 9.2.2

Safari Auto Saving Screen Shots?

Hello! For some reason screenshots of Safari are being autosaved. Not sure why or if this is needed? How do I disable this auto save and delete the files? Thank you!
Here is a screen shot:

Where is screen shot autosaving to? If you take a screen shot it has to go somewhere. Just drag and drop to Trash or Select them and use "Move to Trash" under File in Menu Bar.

Since upgrading to Lion, i am unable to take screen shots. i get the message that i don't have permission to save files to the place where SSs are saved. how can i regain the ability to save screen shots? thanks

since upgrading to Lion, i am unable to take screen shots. i get the message that i don't have permission to save files to the place where SSs are saved. how can i regain the ability to save screen shots? thanks

First of all, are you using the OS native screen capture?
If not, make sure the application you're using has been update for Lion. I was using Snapz Pro for years, but I need to update it for use with Lion. Meanwhile Grab and the keyboard shortcuts are working on my Lion load.
If you are using the native capture mode unsuccessfully, I would run the Disk Utility and repair permissions on the drive. For some reason, even in past OS Versions, routine maintenance of permissions makes life a lot easier.

Where are my screen shots landing?

I haven't used the apple screen shot function in some time. When I take one it isn't landing in the folder I used to have it assigned to. It also isn't on the desktop. I hear it make the click sound when I use it. How can I track down where it is ending up, or at leas specify its landing spot from here out?
Thanks.

The default location is your Desktop, but another logical place to look would be your Pictures folder. If it's not there check Downloads and Documents.
It must be somewhere.
To specify the location you want use Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location (type your fully qualified location and press the return key.)
For example, to change its default location ~/Desktop/ to your Pictures folder,
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures/
You have to log out and back in again for the change to take effect.
I do not know of any other method.

Where are my Screen shots going?

I know how to make a screen shot but I can't locate them. Where do they go?

Maybe this will help. If you monitor the "More Like This" box, other solved threads appear. Opening them usually displays other threads.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20571561#20571561

Why does it say I do not have permission to save files in the location where screen shots are stored?

everytime i try to take a screen shot this appeares

Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click the following line to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -Rh $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Step 1 should give you usable permissions in your home folder. This step will restore special attributes set by OS X on some user folders to protect them from unintended deletion or renaming. You can skip this step if you don't consider that protection to be necessary, and if everything is working as expected after step 1.
Boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

Where are my screen shots

I have not been able to locate any of my screen shots. Neither the "shift contol command 3 or 4" will appear. My previous mac sent them to the desktop. I have used Command space in order to search, along with searching my "Drop box" folder as per suggested in a previous discussion.

If you add the Control key to those screenshot hotkey sequences (ie, Shift-Control-Command-3), then you will save the resulting screenshot to the clipboard, so it can be directly pasted into an email, to a new Preview document, or to another location that supports pasting image data.

My computer says that I don't have permission to save files were screen shots are stored.What do I do?

Well I am trying to take a screen shot, but whenever I do, it says what the question says... What should I do, for the screen shot to be able to be saved?

Hallo Linc Davis,
   My MacBook Pro (mid 2009) crashed completely night before last. Was able to take it to the apple store today wherein the Genius diagnosed that the OS (10.8.5) had failed randomly so he uninstalled and reinstalled it. Since I was up-to-date on my time machine back-up, I just finished backing up the OS with all my data.
   However, when I was finishing that process and clicked on the button to open/launch/start up (?) my mac, I got the rainbow pinwheel of death which spun for about 20 sec. This surprised me because I figured with a Genius diagnosis that my HD was fine and a fresh install of the OS, all should be well as far as basic operation went.
   After I closed down all the microsoft office stuff that auto opens when I start, I opened Safari. I was curious to try streaming a movie on Netflix as I'd had unresolved viewing issues with that before the crash. I'd hoped that a fresh OS install might've somehow fixed that. It didn't. I got a different error message, though, from Netflix instructing me to uninstall, etc. I wanted to get a screen capture of the message to save for later. I was able to set up the grab, but instead of asking me where I wanted to save it, I got an error message from my mac telling me I don't have the necessary permission to save it where those images are saved. Before today, I was always able to save those images.
   So, I followed your Go>Go to Folder> ~Library... instructions and was told there was no folder by that name. I then followed the Applications>Utilities>Disc Utilities>Repair Disc Permissions instructions and still can't save the screen grab. The list of things needing repair, though, was massive! They were 'unanticipated' errors, or something like that. Lots to do with iTunes and languages, including in Dutch. No idea why. There may have been other languages, mentioned but the list was so huge I didn't scroll to the bottom. In any case, I still can't save screen grabs.
   Any ideas?
   Thanks for your help!

Screen shots are not getting saved in the desktop

Hi,
Unable to capture some screen shots. I am getting the sound of camera-clicks, but not finding them in the desktop. Searched in the finder to locate, whether these are gettiing saved in any other locations, but didn't find. Followed some of the instructions in discussion forum, unsuccessfully.
Kindly help.

Hi..
Try this thread > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1755293?tstart=0

Where are screen shots? 10.8

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for