Apple Configurator has now been in my grubby hands long enough for me to start looking at it a little deeper than I did in the introductory article I did awhile back. Architecturally, Apple Configurator keeps its data in ~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.configurator. Here, you’ll find a directory called IPSWs, another called Resources, file called AppleConfigurator.storedata and another called Users.storedata. The IPSWs directory is where operating system versions, per model of iOS are stored. These look something like iPad2,1_5.1_9B176_Restore.ipsw, which is iOS 5.1 for a standard iPad 2. iPad 1, the retina display iPad, as well as each iPod Touch and iPhone 4 each have their own entry as well. The IPSWs…
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Changing the Screenshot Location in OS X
Each user in Mac OS X can customize the location that their screenshots (aka screencaptures) will go. To do so you would edit the com.apple.screencapture property list, customizing the location key. You can easily edit this file using the defaults command. For example, if we wanted to set the location to go to a folder called screenshots in the home directory of a user we could use the following command: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/screenshots You can also change the default type of screenshot which I cover here https://krypted.com//mac-os-x/mac-os-x-changing-the-default-screen-shot-format.
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Mac OS X: User Templates
To setup a template user account, create the directory structure and settings here: /System/Library/User Template