Desktop Image Question

I have on my Mac a screensaver which will cycle through nature pictures located somewhere on my computer, and while some of these are desktop image options, I cannot choose all of them.
Is there a place on my MacBook where all of these images are stored?

I believe the images you are looking for are here: +MacintoshHD>System>Library>ScreenSavers>Right click the screensaver you want>select Show Package Contents>Contents>Resources+ this will reveal the jpg images.
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I'm relatively new to using a Mac, so bear with me on this one: I have a MacBook Pro with the most recent version of OS X Leopard on it. I downloaded some wallpaper/desktop images off the Internet, created a separate folder for them inside the Library - Desktop Images folder, but I want to have the system change them at intervals, in random order, which is easy enough to do. I'd also like the system to cycle through all the desktop images in the desktop images folder, and not just the newly created Downloaded Images folder. Will Leopard do that automatically (or can it)? If not, is there a way to implement this?
Thank you, ahead of time.

you need to put all images in the same folder if you want the system to cycle through them It can't cycle through images in two different folders at once.

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Well, this may seem like a trivial "problem" and it well may be but since I just bought this G5 and a costly 30" Apple display, I look at any "little" thing as possibly a sign of Major Trouble in my computer and/or display.
So, yesterday I was on the phone for hours with Apple about another issue (posted here if you have time to kill) and they had me do a million things to try to resolve it, nothing working. In the middle of one such operation I noticed that my desktop image suddenly went pale. I even mentioned it to the Apple woman but then I said maybe I've just been looking at it for too long.
After we hung up this pallid desktop pattern kept bothering me and I wanted to know for sure if it was my imagination or if something had "happened." I went into display settings and sure enough the calibration setting was on something weird - maybe it got there somehow during all the diagnostics Apple had me do. So I put it back to the correct setting but nothing changed as far as the desktop pattern quality.
The image is a gif that I downloaded from a cool website that has free desktop patterns and pictures. It maybe 2" x 2" and is tiled on the desktop. I went to the site, found the image, and sure enough, it's richer in tint, everything I had remembered. So I am thinking this cannot exactly be a display problem per se because I am looking at the same image on the website (perfect) and on my desktop (pale and washed out). So I think maybe it has something to do with the actual .gif - that something happened to it within the desktop image settings.
I remove it as a desktop image and from my files and trash it. I download it again from the site. When I look at it in Preview the colors are perfect. I even rename it. I put it in the desktop picture box and it fills the screen again as a tiled pattern, but as the same PALE washed out version. I try this several times all with the same result.
Then I remembered that I had sent this image to a friend so I found the email and took the attachment off and placed the image back in the desktop window. This time it worked. The image was as it should be, with all its rich tones. As a safeguard I emailed the .gif to myself at a yahoo account.
I could go back to the desktop pattern site and get the image again just to see if it would work properly from the start but I am afraid something will go wrong again and I have "resolved" the problem via the email attached .gif. Or maybe there is a real problem and I literally have covered it up by using the saved .gif.
Can anyone explain this to me? What misery could this indicate? Or can an image somehow suddenly get corrupted? What was really weird was that I kept downloading it from the site and it looked perfect UNTIL I put it in as a desktop image.
It's little things like this that drives some people to madness!
Thank you for reading.
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thanks kwamster, now where was i? well, i think onyX actually did fix the off-times. now they reflect reality. we will see how that holds up.
in the meanwhile i essentially was forced at gunpoint to do an archive/install, and while i feared it my system seems to be unscathed. however, the desktop image thing remains unresolved. i am getting around it for the moment with a version of the image i found that seems only a few shades off. i can live with it for now. it's not so much IT as what IT may be an indication of, hence the archive/install which didn't cure it.
now apple is talking of my doing an erase/install which you can believe i am not in the mood to do but then a tier 2 person suggested that maybe the problem was in that it was a .gif format, not a .jpg. he suggests i fool around with the image in photoshop, get it colorwize where i want it and then save it as a .jpg and put it in the desktop preference window. i think it's a brilliant idea but if there is an underlying Major Problem it is only a kind of Band-Aid solution. he said the next thing i could do before an erase/install would be a hardware diagnostic, run off the apple install disk.
the three icons that are now question marks in the dock oddly have disappeared from the g3 folder on my g5. it's unlike me to have deleted them and anything else i've tried to move as an experiment from there out of the folder and onto the dock still keeps a copy on the desktop. the one dragged to the dock goes pouf if you remove it. no biggie. i can rewrite the info and make new OSX clippings. i asked the apple woman today if perhaps the mistake was putting something in the dock that was something other than an application and she said that you can put anything there, so...
oh, part of what i did today was indeed create a new user and make a test of the image and had the same problem. that is what led to the archive/install because they said it was a system issue not a user issue, but again, it seems not to have changed anything.
also verified and or repaired the permissions several times.
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I'm not sure if this the right place to ask this question but here goes-- I am a school librarian with 15 G5 iMacs and an OS X Server. We have used user management to set up permissions for the students but I would like to set the default desktop image to one that I have created with some information I would like the students to see when they login. I can do that for individual users but not as a default for all users. Can this be done? I was able to do this in the past.
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In 10.3 when selecting an image to use as your desktop image the selector would show all the pictures in the selected file, and the folders, letting you click through to navigate to many different folders in the directory.
It seems that in 10.5 it now only shows the images in a selected folder, and not the folders therein, which makes picking new desktop images far more time consuming.
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In 10.3 if you had a folder selected it would show all the pictures & folders within, then, without having to choose 'add folder' you could search through the full contents of a folder, which it seems you can't now.
Being able to just search all you pictures at one time was far more user friendly than having to add every bloody folder with a picture in it to the list.

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and if, in the second case, you use a quite dark one, with a lot of "black" pixels that actually does give a lot less light (the one here is my desktop picture, a map with a light-rendering effect):
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2) to remember your electricity company counter index
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6) run to the electricity company counter and write down the index
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I can not change my desktop image, and my screensaver won't start.
I was playing around in Desktop Preferences tonight, setting different speeds for the iTunes Artwork screensaver to see how it'd look, and suddenly, System Preferences just crashed on me. I wasn't doing ANYTHING strange, just playing with the options of the original screensavers that came with my computer, which is brand new. I don't have any third party screensavers loaded on my machine. The desktop image was one I made myself, with Photoshop. I have absolutely no idea why it's acting this way.
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I also think that maybe an alarm clock program I downloaded called Aurora may have been partly to blame. I had Aurora authorized to wake my computer from sleep, even though I had password protection enabled. This might have conflicted with the screensaver somehow, dunno.... Let me know if any of you are successfully using Aurora without any problems, and I will reinstall it. But for now, that program is off my system.
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