[SOLVED] Does snipping tool save snips of things even if you don't press the save button?

[Parroty69]

I want to use the snipping tool feature without saving and just copying the snip by pressing the copy button. I am asking this because I am worried that it will eat up my space on my disk.

 

[USAFRet]

I want to use the snipping tool feature without saving and just copying the snip by pressing the copy button. I am asking this because I am worried that it will eat up my space on my disk.

It will copy to the clipboard.
Then, you can paste it into whatever you wish.

It does not save the 'picture' anywhere except RAM and possibly a tempfile.
Nothing to worry about, it is not sucking up your drive space.

Only if you Save does it actually write a file to your drive.

 

[Parroty69]

It will copy to the clipboard.
Then, you can paste it into whatever you wish.

It does not safe the 'picture' anywhere except RAM and possibly a tempfile.
Nothing to worry about, it is not sucking up your drive space.

Only if you Save does it actually write a file to your drive.

Thank you, you have resolved my worries and made me much more comfortable with using the snipping tool feature.

 

[USAFRet]

Thank you, you have resolved my worries and made me much more comfortable with using the snipping tool feature.

I use it ALL the time.

 

[Math Geek]

yah its probably the most useful thing they added to windows in many many years...

 

[Deleted member 14196]

No. Power shell and wsl and windows terminal is best addition

I do use the snipping tool on windows and shotwell on Linux for bug reporting a lot though