Trouble changing screenshot location with El Capitan

Thank you John. The one thing I was not doing was one of the oldest processes in troubleshooting, that of rebooting the computer after the correct command was input. Running it today (after shutting it down for the night, last night) the check in the terminal and where the screenshots are going all worked correctly.

Thanks for all your help John.

And thank you Camelot for your help along the way.

SOLVED!

To jeffreythefrog:

Prior to Mojave, the terminal program was the way the screenshot folder was selected.

to jeffreythefrog

All instructions I have come across and my macbook runnning El Capitan does not respond to Shift-Cmd-5.

All the instructions say that started with Mojave

to John Galt

Thanks for your help John.

I do drag that folder to after the word “location” in the command and I get the that error message.

Camelot, thank you for your input:

when I type in “defaults read com.apple.screencapture” I get a long list of p.list references that I don’t understand.

As I posted above, I am putting the whole Terminal Caommand in, including the folder that i drag to the terminal window.

I just tried putting the tilde in there and it still gives the same error

Thanks. I’ll give that a shot.