How to relocate screenshots

One of the first things I learned in my early days of OS X is the option to take screenshots on my Mac and this is something very important for many users of the Apple operating system. When you come from other operating systems, it seems so easy to take a screenshot on your Mac, that you hardly believe it. The simple key combination: shift + cmd + 4 O well shift + cmd + 3 They offer us the possibility of taking a screenshot or a part of it and it is saved automatically on the desktop of our Mac. Today we are going to see how to change the location of those screenshots stored on the desktop from Terminal.

Business as usual, first we open Terminal from the Launchpad (other folder) copy and paste the following command line:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location (and drag the folder where we want to save the captures)

Now we need perform a reboot and for this we copy the following command in Terminal: killall SystemUIServer

Ready, we already have a new location for all the screenshots that we take on our Mac. This time, as with previous Terminal commands and tricks, we can reverse the process easily and return the captures to our desktop. To do this we just have to open Terminal and copy the command:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~ / Desktop

Hit enter and then reboot the system with: killall SystemUIServer 

Again we will have our screenshots on our desktop.