Comments on: Change the Default Screen Shot File Name in Mac OS X

By: IamAziz

IamAziz — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:19:55 +0000

You don’t have to use:
killall SystemUIServer

The command takes affect right away.

By: OSXDaily

OSXDaily — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:19:17 +0000

Oops, you are right, thanks for catching the typo.

By: Prescott Perez-Fox

Prescott Perez-Fox — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:55:33 +0000

I agree with Stephen, it would be great to chance the entire naming convention. I would most prefer a different way to write the date, namely YYYYMMDD.HHmm.

I would make it: perezfox_screen_20120216.1155.png, for example.

By: Stephen Strum

Stephen Strum — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:26:08 +0000

The tip is well intentioned but really does not solve the issue of hte long filename that comes after “screen shot” or “OSXDaily”. In other words, you still have OSXDaily 2012-02-16 at 8.22.AM.jpg or whatever file format you have chosen.

A tip that would change the entire filename would be great.

Also, Onyx allows you easily to make a change in image format (jpeg vs png vs other), whether you would like a shadow or not, the location and the first part of the filename as well. The area for these selections is in Parameters menu item in Onyx.

By: KKDK

KKDK — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:03:08 +0000

I would rather use this
$ps -ef | grep [S]ystemUI | awk ‘{print $2}’
25116
$kill -HUP #PID fetched from above command#

By: Thalles

Thalles — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:14:50 +0000

In the line…..

killall SytemUIServer

should be

killall SystemUIServer