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I used to be able to set the key location under com.apple.screencapture to change the save location for the system-wide screen capture facility.

This doesn't work for me anymore -- screenshots save to the Desktop regardless of the setting of location. Here's what defaults says:

$ defaults read com.apple.screencapture
{
 location = "/Users/jogloran/Desktop/Screenshots";
}
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It was a permissions issue on that folder in the end. – jogloran Sep 23 '12 at 23:59

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Works for me quite happily.

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Have you restarted UIserver?

killall SystemUIServer

Does the path exist?

UPDATE: If the screen capture cannot find or write to the designated folder, it will default to the current user's desktop.

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+1 for this. As well, have you made sure to include the "location" portion of the command? I forgot to do this myself a couple times and never got any correction from the command line. – Terrance Shaw Sep 21 '12 at 9:17
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@Veil I'm sure he has, as the output of the defaults read command gives a valid looking path – Stu Wilson Sep 21 '12 at 10:24
I definitely have. The path does exist. I've tried restarting SystemUIServer too -- this persists through reboots. – jogloran Sep 21 '12 at 12:48
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@jogloran if screen capture cannot find or write to the folder, then it will default to the Desktop. Check your file permissions on the folder, triple check the path, and all else fails, run repair permissions. – Stu Wilson Sep 21 '12 at 17:00

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