How to use it

Turn the JPEG copies of your Elite screenshots on or off.

1 Stop the copies.

Say "stop converting my screenshots".

D47 stops copying new screenshots. The next one is not converted.

2 Start them again.

Say "start converting my screenshots".

D47 copies each new screenshot again.

! The one that stops people.

Open Settings and read the line "Saved to".

It shows the D47 folder. If Windows syncs your Pictures folder, as OneDrive can, the copies are synced too.

Why it works this way

D47 saves a small copy of each screenshot and leaves Elite's alone.

1 What is converted.

Each screenshot you take in Elite, including high-resolution ones, is copied as a JPEG. Elite's BMP is never touched.

2 Where it goes and what it is called.

The copy goes in a D47 folder inside Elite's own pictures folder, named after the local time, the system and the body, such as 2026-10-12 19-40-03 Shinrarta Dezhra.jpg.

3 Why only you can switch it.

It writes files outside D47's data folder, so the switch is yours. The AI model is refused if it tries to change it.

The details

This is the first thing D47 writes into your Pictures folder, so it has a switch of its own, Convert Elite’s screenshots, on by default. The setting is screenshots.convert. Privacy and egress lists it as Your screenshots: the copies are kept on this PC and sent nowhere.

A copy’s name comes from the Name method of EliteScreenshot. A second screenshot in the same second adds ` (2)`, and characters Windows does not allow in a file name are dropped from the system and body.

public string Name(DateTime localTime, int copy)
{
    var parts = new List<string> { localTime.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) };

    foreach (var part in new[] { System, Body })
    {
        if (Dropped(part) is { Length: > 0 } kept)
        {
            parts.Add(kept);
        }
    }

    var suffix = copy > 1 ? $" ({copy.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)})" : "";

    return $"{string.Join(' ', parts)}{suffix}.jpg";
}

A copy is made when the journal reports the screenshot, so one taken before D47 started is not copied. D47 waits up to two minutes for Elite to finish writing the BMP, which takes a while for a high-resolution screenshot, and skips one that does not arrive in that time or is moved away first. Screenshots are copied one at a time, at their own size.

This capability has no tools. It is separate from the pictures of the window that Screen shows the AI model, which are never written to disk.