As you probably know, tapping your Windows PC’s Print Screen key will place a “snapshot” of the current screen contents onto the Windows Clipboard.
The good news is that we have yet to encounter a keyboard that can’t get Apple’s Print Screen key mapping working on a Mac. It may take a little bit of experimentation, but you should be able to use the default key combinations as a guide with which to test various shortcuts until you discover the correct keys for your particular Mac Boot. If your Mac is a laptop. This launches the Console app and specifically opens an errorlog file that lists possible causes of your print failure. The output is far from user-friendly. Print Window offers the ability to print a file listing directly from within the Mac OS X Finder. No more taking screenshots of windows or settling for text-only printouts of filenames only. Print Window provides the works: icons, file information, sorting and so much more!
This process is commonly known as “taking a screenshot”, and it’s one of the most useful features in all of Windows for many users.
Change Default Print Screen Folder
Once it is on the Clipboard your screenshot image can be pasted into your favorite image editing program. From there you can make changes to the image and then save it to your computer as an image file.
As luck would have it, Windows 10 gives you another very handy option for handling your screenshots…
If you don’t need to edit the image before saving it to your hard drive, you can easily take the screenshot and save it directly as an image file simply by pressing a special key combination. Here’s how:
1 – Press the Windows key and the Print Screen key at the same time.
Note: The Print Screen key is usually labeled either PrtScn, PrntScrn or Print Scr, depending on the keyboard.
2 – Press the Windows+E key combination to open “File Explorer”, then navigate to the Pictures>Screenshots folder. That folder will contain an image file (in .png format) depicting the screenshot that you just captured.
Note: Any additional screenshots you take using this method will be saved in the same folder with sequentially numbered file names.
Of course Windows 10 gives you other options for capturing screenshots, including pressing Alt+Print Screen to capture only the currently active window.
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Almost every Mac user takes screenshots. By default, screenshot is saved on your Desktop. This is handy place to store them. However if you use command + shift + 3(eventually 4) shortcut to often and do not want to trash the old files, one day you may find your desktop overwhelmed with screenshots. What to do in this case? You may easily adjust where to save captured screenshots.
1.First of all you should make new folder somewhere on your Mac. To do this you just click on Finder and look for “File” menu at the top. Than choose “File” and click on “New folder”. Probably the easiest way to create new folder is well known command + shift+ N combination. You can use it as well. I have created new folder on my desktop.
2. Now I have the new “untitled folder” on my desktop. Next step is to rename it. I would call it ‘’screenshots”. However you may choose the name that best fits you. In order to rename it just do a single click on it and press Enter or Return key. Type the name of your future screenshot storage folder(i my case I call it screenshots)
3. Open the Terminal application on your Mac. To do this click on Finder icon and look for “Go” menu at the top. Select utilities and find Terminal app there. Launch it.
4. Copy and paste this command to the terminal window:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /path/
/path/ is the place where you want to save your screenshots.
If screen captures are stored on your desktop:
/path/ = ~/Desktop/.
If you have already created screenshots folder on your desktop the location of this folder(aka path) is:
~/Desktop/screenshots/
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If you wish to save screenshots in downloads folder the path looks this way: ~/Downloads/
Whats a good external hard drive for mac. So you need to paste this command to the terminal in order to save screen captures in recently created screenshots folder:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/screenshots/
Press enter(return key)
Then paste this command to save changes and see immediate effect
killall SystemUIServer
Press return.
Mac Folder Icon
That’s it. Now your screenshots are saved in the folder on your desktop.
In order to revert changes paste this command to the terminal window:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/
Print Screen Save To Folder
Press return and paste this command to save changes:
killall SystemUIServer
Press return.
Print Screen Mac Folder
Hope this helps to prevent the situation when your desktop is cluttered with dozens of screenshots. Please feel free to add your comment or improve this user tip.