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Screenshots

On the macbook air mojave 10.14.5 the screenshot function is not working. How can that pathway be repaired?

Posted on Aug 23, 2019 9:02 AM

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Posted on Aug 23, 2019 9:21 AM

Not working?


shift command 5 —see> Options




shift command 4

shift command 3



How to take a screenshot on your Mac - Apple Support


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Oct 2, 2019 11:44 PM in response to leroydouglas

I have the same issue.

If I attempt to use the screenshot icon in dock, nothing happens, and I can receive the message that Screenshot is not responding.

Cmd/shift/5 may work, but gets a full screen, and not a selected window.


  • Have done all the usual - closed misbehaving process, cold restarted, etc etc. It's a bug.
  • Potentially, it was generated by interaction with 'something else' as on It's first appearance after update to Mojave it worked as expected, repeatedly.


Now it's next to useless.



Aug 23, 2019 12:14 PM in response to leroydouglas

Let me clarify the "not working" statement my students received new computers and I tried to have them code a designated area where to put the images in terminal but they could not execute the command. Then I tried to have them reset their defaults in services and that did not work. The students can not take any form of a screen shot and are unable to record their screen using quicktime player. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to fix the pathway? I understand how to take a screenshot and keys that need to used to do so; however, every-time a student attempts it- they receive an error code. Anyone have any thoughts??

Aug 23, 2019 12:24 PM in response to RosebowlTeacher_14

RosebowlTeacher_14 wrote:

I tried to have them code a designated area where to put the images in terminal but they could not execute the command.

Then I tried to have them reset their defaults in services and that did not work.



Maybe if you can copy and paste the terminal code—we can work backwards. It sounds like this is the issue.



The shift command 5 interface lets you choose options for destination of screenshots—no terminal code is required.

Oct 3, 2019 12:18 AM in response to RosebowlTeacher_14

I agree that probably a wrong command at the Terminal is part of the problem; in Mojave it is no longer needed, anyway, since all the options are accessible from the Screenshots application.

This usually summoned with command-shift-5. Since the shortcut is apparently not working, I see two ways of approaching it:


a) following leroydouglas suggestion try to work back from the terminal command. In that vein, probably just deleting whatever settings you created is best:

defaults delete com.apple.screencapture


b) Launch the Screenshots application manually, using Spotlight or merely by double clicking it in the Finder (it is either in /Applications or /Applications/Utilities, not at my mac now to check which of the two)

Click Options and set things the way you want.


pS if the application starts as above but not with the shortcuts go to System Preferences->Keyboard->Shorttcuts to ensure they are active

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