Setting up automatic screenshots removal on Mac OS

Stop making a mess on your desktop!

⚠️ Before executing commands, you need to give a cron full disk access instruction is here

Just execute this line into your Terminal

FOLDER_NAME=screenshots; FILES_MAX_AGE=14; mkdir ~/Desktop/$FOLDER_NAME && defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/$FOLDER_NAME && (crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "0 0 * * * /usr/bin/find ~/Desktop/$FOLDER_NAME -type f -mtime +$FILES_MAX_AGE -exec rm -f '{}' +;") | crontab -

What the command does:

• Makes folder ~/Desktop/screenshots as default for screenshots
• Adds a job in crontab to remove files in screenshots folder older than 14 days

Add also automatic cleaning of the downloads folder

FILES_MAX_AGE=14; (crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "0 0 * * * /usr/bin/find ~/Downloads -type f -mtime +$FILES_MAX_AGE -exec rm -f '{}' +;") | crontab -