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If you’re like me you like things nice and tidy but you don’t want to do all the hard work associated with keeping things that way. Here are two tricks for keeping the desktop on your Mac nice and tidy.
Keep screenshots away from the desktop
Via Andy Graulund, here is a trick for changing the default location of screenshots from the desktop to another folder:
Open a Terminal window and type this:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/Path/To/Folder
Log out and log back in, and the change will have taken effect.
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/.
Hide all files on the desktop
Mikkel Malmberg shares a tip for keeping the desktop completely clean. Use this one if you want to store files in ~/Desktop but don’t want to see them on your actual desktop.
Open the Terminal and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool FALSE ; killall Finder
After that you won’t see any icons on your Desktop—no files, no folders, no disks; just the pretty picture.
