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I'm trying to use the screenshot.....without the preview part.....when i uncheck show preview it says it can't write file to intended destination.....there has to be a way around this...???


Posted on May 2, 2020 12:38 PM

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Posted on May 2, 2020 1:22 PM

ah, may be this is my problem....i am trying to save the screenshot to an external drive....Can it not do that...? I chose save to downloads and it worked.....I am capturing a lot of screenshots......it's bird egg laying season , so i am saving a lot of the screenshots...if they, the screenshots are all going to be saved to the hard drive it will quickly fill up...is there a way to save screenshots to an external drive without the thumbnail preview....?

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May 2, 2020 1:22 PM in response to Jardaberay1

ah, may be this is my problem....i am trying to save the screenshot to an external drive....Can it not do that...? I chose save to downloads and it worked.....I am capturing a lot of screenshots......it's bird egg laying season , so i am saving a lot of the screenshots...if they, the screenshots are all going to be saved to the hard drive it will quickly fill up...is there a way to save screenshots to an external drive without the thumbnail preview....?

May 2, 2020 12:54 PM in response to Jardaberay1

Thanks for replying so quickly...you are right i meant the thumbnail.....i have all three options unchecked under options.....show floating thumbnail.....remember last selection and show mouse pointer......when i do that it says it can't save the screenshot....I have no idea what i am doing...can you please explain this a way that my dumb self can understand.....??

May 2, 2020 1:23 PM in response to Jardaberay1

I don't mess around too much with these but here's how I have mine configured:


I save snaps to the Desktop.

I use the 5 sec. Timer just in case.

No mic.

I remember last used.


You can choose Other location in the top panel, if you wish to save in a specific location.


And, I use the choice of capturing a section of the screen. The rest you have to play with to see what fits your needs. I pretty much only use it for posting here, so my needs are fairly limited by what you can upload for here.

May 2, 2020 1:54 PM in response to Kappy

thanks for your help....I can't figure it out..i'm guessing it just won't save the screenshots without the thumbnail irritation to an external drive.....that is not what i need.......i'm going to mark this as solved......laughs..which means it's not, but i don't know what else to do about this..find an app the can take screeshots without a thumbnail preview and save them to an external drive.....somehow....anyway..thanks for trying..!!

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