Trouble changing screenshot location with El Capitan

To add to my recent reply, here is what i got when I copied and pasted your example from your previous post:

Last login: Fri Jul 11 23:36:36 on ttys000

Mugs-MacBook-Pro-15:~ MacBk15$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/MacBk15/Desktop/Desktop\ stuff/Screenshots15

Mugs-MacBook-Pro-15:~ MacBk15$

Hope this helps locate my problem.

Thanks John:

As of today, it started sending the screenshots to my desktop again, instead of the folder I’ve been using for years.

I tried your suggestion just now, to take the space out of the “Desktop Stuff” folder. I tried it both with the backslash “\”. left in and removing it too. Both had the same result. Below is the result:

Mugs-MacBook-Pro-15:~ MacBk15$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/MacBk15/Desktop/DesktopStuff/Screenshots15

Mugs-MacBook-Pro-15:~ MacBk15$

And it’s still sending screenshots to my desktop. There must be something I’m putting in that the terminal won’t accept.

When I run Camelot’s test now, it says the screenshots are going to my old folder (below), but when I do a screenshot it goes to the Desktop.  

Mugs-MacBook-Pro-15:~ MacBk15$ defaults read com.apple.screencapture

{

    location = "/Users/MacBk15/Desktop/Desktop stuff/Screenshots";

}

Mugs-MacBook-Pro-15:~ MacBk15$ 

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.