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How do I disable this:

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after taking screenshot?

user7886229
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    More importantly, could you keep the thumbnail but not have to wait 5 seconds for the file to be saved, AND when you take two consecutive screenshots it doesn't show the thumbnail of the first one? – MicroMachine Mar 25 '19 at 18:18

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  1. Press commandShift5 to bring up the Screenshot menu
  2. Uncheck Options > Show Floating Thumbnail

This will prevent it from showing up.

This will also disable the ~5 second saving delay (screenshots will be saved immediately).

Dillon
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user7886229
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    Have you noticed it still takes 5 seconds to show the file on the desktop, even if you disable this? I could go off on one of my 'fun rants' about this 'improvement'... but I shan't ;) – Tetsujin Oct 06 '18 at 15:17
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    @Tetsujin Screw it. I'm gonna look into copying the frameworks over from high Sierra to completely disable this feature. – user7886229 Oct 06 '18 at 15:22
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    I have great difficulty trying to see the logic behind this new 'feature' at all. Gimme mi screenshot & gimme it nao !! ;-) – Tetsujin Oct 06 '18 at 15:25
  • @JBis If that's successful, please leave as another answer, I'd like to see! – Wowfunhappy Oct 06 '18 at 16:31
  • @Tetsujin Hmm. I just checked again and it seems to be saving immediately. Can you check yours again just to confirm? – user7886229 Oct 09 '18 at 04:39
  • Hmmm.. odd. I toggled it again & the delay is gone. I'm currently on 10.14.1 beta, so either something changed, or I'm going slightly mad in my old age ;) – Tetsujin Oct 09 '18 at 05:55
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    @Tetsujin I went off on such a "fun rant", before discovering that my question was a duplicate. I don't even mind the down-votes. It felt good to point out everything that's wrong with this feature. :-D – Mentalist Dec 14 '21 at 08:12
  • @Mentalist Yeah - I do like the 'new' cmd/shift/5 for many reasons, but this bit had to go bye-bye for me too. – Tetsujin Dec 14 '21 at 08:16
  • @Tetsujin Yeah, I forgot that we no longer resort to Terminal hacks to make screenshots work as we want. Old habits die hard. I think I had actually found the option to disable the Floating Thumbnail long ago. But after a clean OS installation, moving up a few versions of macOS, I couldn't recall the details. – Mentalist Dec 14 '21 at 08:25