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When I press Command + Shift + 4 and take a screenshot, the screenshot shows as a thumbnail at bottom right of the screen.

If I continue working, the screenshot is not saved. I have to double-click on the thumbnail, open it in Preview & save it.

How do I save the screenshot immediately like it used to?

The answer here doesn't really apply as I don't see a Touch Bar.

Nimesh Neema
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Use the keyboard shortcut Command + Shift + 5 to invoke the screen capture app. Click on Options and check if the Save to location is set correctly.

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Nimesh Neema
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    This option looks good, and checking the options the screenshot is set to save to Desktop, but it never ends up there. This has been going on for about 2 weeks. No OS updates in that time. – Insight Apr 10 '19 at 05:46
  • Any advice Nimesh? I think the behaviour changed during an OS update. – Insight Aug 12 '19 at 05:28
  • @Insight AFAIK it didn't. What's the release of macOS that you are running? Maybe some configuration changes got made. – Nimesh Neema Aug 12 '19 at 05:31
  • Running 10.15 Catalina Beta. "Show Floating Thumbnail" was selected. Deselecting it, I can see the screenshot gets saved to Desktop, but it immediately automatically gets deleted every time some how. – Insight Aug 12 '19 at 05:32
  • @Insight Can't comment on behavior in Catalina ATM. One, it's currently in beta and things are liable to break. Two, I am not running it on any of the machines. Advise you to wait till the public release is out later in Fall. – Nimesh Neema Aug 12 '19 at 05:33
  • OK, cheers Nimesh. – Insight Aug 12 '19 at 05:41
  • The process screencaptureui fails to write the screenshot to the Desktop check this answer. https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/368703/49648 – Andy Oct 16 '19 at 18:50
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Adding to the advice by Nimesh Neema -- press Command + Shift 5 to gain access to the settings -- I would also unselect "Show Floating Thumbnail" to have your screenshots go directly to the selected destination (eg Desktop). The nice thing about the floating window is that you can often drag it directly into an app without having to go find it in the desktop.

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