Where are Steam screenshots saved? How to find you screen grabs on the Steam gaming app or your hard

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You can capture and save Steam game screenshots using the F12 key.
You can find these screenshots by using the View menu in the Steam app and choosing "Screenshots."
You can also navigate to the location where the Steam app is installed and find them there.

Steam makes it easy to take a screenshot within any game just by pressing the F12 function key.

As soon as you do that, you should see a small notification that the screenshot has been saved to your computer.

Unfortunately, it might not be obvious where that screenshot was saved. The good news is that it's easy to find from within the Steam app on your computer.

You can locate the screenshots directly through the Steam app. If you need to find saved screenshots without using the Steam app – such as if the app has been uninstalled from your computer – you can open the folder in which Steam was installed.

Here's how to find where Steam screenshots are saved.

How to find where Steam screenshots are saved using Steam

1. Open the Steam app on your computer.

2. In the menu bar, click View, and then click Screenshots. The Screenshot Uploader window will appear.

You can find all of your screenshots from the View menu in the Steam app. Dave Johnson/Insider

3. In the Screenshot Uploader, use the Show dropdown menu to choose the game with the screenshots you want to find.

4. Click Show on Disk. A folder window will appear with the screenshots. This is where they are saved.

Click "Show on Disk" to open the screenshot folder. Dave Johnson/Insider

How to find where Steam screenshots are saved without using Steam

1. You'll need to open a particular folder on your computer with the following text:

On Windows 10, open this folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam.

Mac users should open this folder: Users/[your Mac username]/Library/Application Support/Steam.

2. If you installed Steam in a different location, you'd need to find it on your own

If you must open the screenshot folder manually, start by opening the Steam app's installation folder. Dave Johnson/Insider

3. Within the Steam folder, open the userdata subfolder.

4. If you only have one Steam account, there should only be one folder here, named with a string of numbers. Open it.

Quick tip: If you have more than one account, there will be one folder for each account, and you might need to explore to figure out which folder is the one you want.

5. Find and open the folder named 760.

6. Click remote. The folders in the remote folder are games that have screenshots, though they are named based on their Steam numeric IDs. As a result, you'll need to open folders and look until you find the one for the game you're after.

7. Now open a folder and look in its "screenshots" folder to find the images.

Deep in the user data folder, you'll find a screenshot folder for each game with screenshots. Dave Johnson/Insider Dave Johnson Freelance Writer Dave Johnson is a technology journalist who writes about consumer tech and how the industry is transforming the speculative world of science fiction into modern-day real life. Dave grew up in New Jersey before entering the Air Force to operate satellites, teach space operations, and do space launch planning. He then spent eight years as a content lead on the Windows team at Microsoft. As a photographer, Dave has photographed wolves in their natural environment; he's also a scuba instructor and co-host of several podcasts. Dave is the author of more than two dozen books and has contributed to many sites and publications including CNET, Forbes, PC World, How To Geek, and Insider. Read more Read less

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Update: 2024-02-02

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