The captured screenshot will automatically be saved to your Mac desktop. Command + Shift + 3 When the screenshot is taken, you’ll hear a camera sound. Now press Command + Shift + 3 key combination simultaneously. If you’d like to revert to the default screenshot location, go back to Terminal and type “defaults write location ~/Desktop” (with no quotation marks) and hit Enter. Take Screenshot of the Entire Screen on Mac Go to the UI or app screen you want to capture.
Now drag and drop the Alias to the desktop. If you're still running El Capitan, or any version of Mac OS X prior to 10.12.1, then you're about to run into problems with some popular security certificates.Just locate the folder you created in the Finder and right click on it. If you would still like easy access to your screenshots from the desktop you could create an alias.A word of warning – don’t delete the folder you created!.Then type the following to make sure the change take effect:.
Name it Screenshots (or whatever you want to call it)
How to change where Mac screenshots are saved in older macOS versions sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia -volume /Volumes/MyVolume -applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app You can then boot the machine from the external drive and use it to update the OS on your normal boot volume.
If that folder is deleted, you're going to have problems. Again, a warning: Do not delete the folder you select for screenshots unless you've repeated the process below, using the same Terminal command.