10.6: Remove time/date stamp from screen shot filenames
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I upgraded my system to Snow Leopard from Tiger, and noticed that Snow Leopard adds a date and time stamp to screen shots’ filenames. I really don’t care about this new feature, and wanted to remove it. After a bit of a search, I found the solution. Type (copy) into Terminal: sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings After you type your password, TextEdit will come up and it will open a text file (Localizable.strings) with root editing powers. Search for these lines: /*
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