Changing save to Desktop location to secondary monitor

[aric85]

Hi there,

I have a dual monitor display set up and would like to change the default screen that files are saved to when saving to Desktop. I want to keep my main monitor the 'Primary monitor' in display layout so that all apps open on this screen but would like screen grabs and files I save to desktop to appear on the smaller monitor instead.

Is there any way of doing this. Googled for a while and can't find anything.

Thanks!

 

[dianeoforegon]

You could change the location to save screenshots then move that folder to the smaller monitor.

A common place to switch the screenshot location to might look something like this:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures/Screenshots

This will place the screenshots into a folder called Screenshots in your Pictures folder in your Home folder. Be sure to create the folder structure before you actually try and take a screenshot.

To apply these changes, again in Terminal, type:

killall SystemUIServer

And, to change it back to the default desktop location, simply type in:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/