Screen capture utility no longer saves to Desktop In the last few weeks, screen capture stopped working on my MBP. Well, partially.

I can still capture to the clipboard with command + control + shift + 4, but if I try to do a standard capture to a file, my Mac plays the screen capture sound but nothing gets saved on my Desktop.

I'm running OS X 10.9.2. The issue has survived a reboot.

Any suggestions?
None of the answers above helped me, but I discovered the my case:

Shift + Command + Control + 4 saves the screenshot to the clipboard.

Shift + Command + 4 saves the screenshot to a file on Desktop.

So if you're using the first short-cuts, you have to manually open a photo editing app and paste the image, but this can be done automatically with the second short-cut.