Thursday, July 10, 2025

TimeSnapper for Mac: Custom Directory Selection Now Available!

TimeSnapper for Mac has been updated to allow a custom directory to be selected for your captured screen images!

If you're not already familiar with TimeSnapper, it's a utility that runs in the background on your Mac or PC and saves an image of your screen(s) (or just the active application window) every few seconds. This can be highly useful when, to take a few examples: 

  • A piece of text you were composing got lost because your browser crashed, or because a web form submit failed. (Retrieve the text out of your screenshot history!) 
  • You want to search up information about a specific error message that you encountered a few minutes ago, for which you don't remember the exact wording. (Again, it'll be waiting for you in your screenshot history!) 
  • You want to remember what all you were working on the afternoon of two days ago. (Click and drag across the TimeSnapper timeline UI to pan through your screenshot history!)  

Previously, the Mac version of TimeSnapper saved your screen images to subfolders of a particular "sandboxed" directory that the TimeSnapper app was by default permitted to access. This worked, but the target folder was in a fairly deep location on the MacOS filesystem, and thus was inconvenient to access by any means other than the "View in Finder" button in TimeSnapper's Preferences window.

Now, starting in version 1.1.0, TimeSnapper for Mac has been enhanced to use security-scoped bookmarks to allow you to choose any folder on your local computer for TimeSnapper to use to save its screen images. 

To use the new feature, after updating your copy of TimeSnapper to the latest version via the Mac App Store, click on the TimeSnapper icon in your Mac's top menu bar, then select Preferences, then the Auto Cleanup tab in the Preferences window. You'll see a "Change folder..." button in that window. 

TimeSnapper Preferences window > Auto Cleanup tab 
If you aren't already using TimeSnapper, take a look at the reviews and ratings (4.8 out of 5 stars as of today!) of TimeSnapper on the Mac App Store, and treat your personal productivity to a lifetime license for a quite reasonably low price!

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