MacOS – How to prolong screenshot snippets time (Mac)
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When you take screen shot you have small snippets at the bottom right conner. It is very useful to drag and drop. But it disappears too quickly.
How I can tweak time of that snippets?
Best Answer
I had a look at the plist for Screen Capture and there doesn't seem to be a time period to extend the time the thumbnail stays on screen. But you can disable/enable the thumbnail and/or change the default location the screenshot is saved to. For me, I have all my screenshots saved to Desktop so it's easily accessible for editing and have thumbnails disabled.
To change these two settings open the app Screenshot by searching in Spotlight. You will then get a cropped window and bar with options at the bottom of the cropped window. Click on Options and you'll see "Show floating thumbnail" and "Save to" options. You can enable/disable floating thumbnail and/or save all screenshots to another file location by default.
See image below for an example:
By the way, behind the cropped area (on the left), you will see the plist file for screen capture that I was looking at. As you can see there isn't a value to change the thumbnail length.
The answer appears to be "No". I have also tested this with the commercial screen-capture utility SnagIt, and it behaves the same way, which is different in Lion from the way it behaved in Snow Leopard.
My suggested work-around is to use Automator's built-in "Scale Images" action to create a workflow to scale your screen shots to the size you want.
[Commercial programs such as GraphicConverter and Pixelmator can scale screen captures, and they also provide additional Automator actions with additional capabilities. You can see some of these in the example above--I own both GraphicConverter and Pixelmator, so these additional options are visible under Automator on my system.]
There is not a way to do this in Grab. However, if you use Preview, you can do the same thing as Grab, by going to File > Take Screen Shot > (Selection). You can then use the scale to fit page function, as shown below. Preview has many hidden and cool features that not many people know about. You don't really need to use Grab, when you could just use Preview, and get what you want! Hope this helps!
Best Answer
I had a look at the plist for Screen Capture and there doesn't seem to be a time period to extend the time the thumbnail stays on screen. But you can disable/enable the thumbnail and/or change the default location the screenshot is saved to. For me, I have all my screenshots saved to Desktop so it's easily accessible for editing and have thumbnails disabled.
To change these two settings open the app
Screenshot
by searching in Spotlight. You will then get a cropped window and bar with options at the bottom of the cropped window. Click onOptions
and you'll see "Show floating thumbnail" and "Save to" options. You can enable/disable floating thumbnail and/or save all screenshots to another file location by default.See image below for an example:
By the way, behind the cropped area (on the left), you will see the plist file for screen capture that I was looking at. As you can see there isn't a value to change the thumbnail length.
Hope this may help somewhat for you :)