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Where does "Recent Apps" in Android store the screenshots?

I have seen a couple of threads on how to prevent these screenshots from being taken. But I would like to know the location of the screenshots directory.

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Please clarify question a little bit. – Sid Jan 9 at 13:41
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Guess he talks about the "recently used apps" list popping up when long-pressing the home button. On tablets with 4.1 up (if not even earlier) this no longer shows the icon only, but a screenshot of the app's last state. Not being able to root my new tabby (yet), I could not check yet for those files... – Izzy Jan 9 at 15:50
The screenshot facility, cannot be taken out as that is integrated directly into the AOSP source which when compiled produces a Stock AOSP Vanilla ROM, and applies only to ICS upwards, on previous versions, it required root to do this. – t0mm13b Jan 9 at 17:07
@t0mm13b the question is not about removing the functionality, but about locating the screenshot image files. I just browsed through the entire internal file systems of my Wildfire (ICS), but was not able to find them. Any idea of where they might be stored? Being thumbnails only, I could imagine them being stored directly into the media database, if that's possible with SQLite. – Izzy Feb 28 at 22:34
Hmmm... try /sdcard/DCIM/Screenshots? :D – t0mm13b Feb 28 at 22:38

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On my Nexus devices /sdcard/Pictures/Screenshots

I think it's the default, odd really as it should go in with DCIM

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DCIM is the de-facto standard for the location for pictures taken with camera... :) Hence the separation for screenshots.. – t0mm13b Jan 9 at 17:06
But that Screenshots directory is not the one the OP asked for: Here are the screenshots saved which the user explicitly takes using the volume and power key combination. OP was asking for the screenshots shown in the "recent apps" menu. – Izzy Feb 28 at 22:21

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