Thankfully, we have a quick fix for this. Firstly, open up a Terminal window. You can do this by pressing COMMAND + SPACE and then typing in Terminal (and hitting ENTER).

With Terminal now open, paste in the following text and hit ENTER:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures

The above command changes your screenshot save location to your pictures folder. If you want to save screen shots to another place, replace ~/Pictures with the name of the folder, for example:

• Desktop: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop
• Documents: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Documents
• Downloads: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Downloads

After running the command you set your screen capture location all you need to do is type in this command and hit ENTER:

killall SystemUIServer

This will restart your SystemUIServer, which makes the changed take effect. And that’s it! You’ve fixed the problem!