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Change the default location for screenshots on OSX
  • mkdir /Full/Path/To/Folder.
  • defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/Path/To/Folder.
  • Log out and log back in.

Note: You have to put in the path properly. Using ~ to indicate your home folder will not work. The path must be entered starting from the root of the hard drive. For example, if you wanted to save them to a secondary partition, your path would start with /Volumes/SecondPartition/.

Source :

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050824073301844

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