Desktop Wallpaper folders added disappear

I've had this issue since I had my HDD changed at Genius Bar and they installed Mountain Lion. Whenever I add more than one folder with wallpapers to System Preferences>Desktop & Screensaver and later close and re-open System Preferences, all folders, except for the last one I added, have disappeared. It's a really annoying bug and I haven't got an answer on how to fix it yet, I have several folders with wallpapers and when I had Lion I never had any problem adding them to system preferences to switch wallpapers from there. Does anyone have any clue on how to solve this issue? I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.2 (latest update which didn't solve the issue either).
I have read here in the forum of other people also having the same issue, I would really appreciate any help from someone who has find a way to solve it other than reinstalling Mountain Lion.
Thank you in advance for your help.

I purchased a Macbook Pro (2012, non-retina) and I have the same issue.
I went to the Genius Bar, and we went through the same steps I took before (deleting plist files, repairing permissions). The issue is system-wide; My admi account, Guests, new Users all experience it.
We could not solve the issue. The Genius' best answer was that this generation might have a bug in its particular build of 10.7.4. I ultimately had a choice of waiting for Apple to discover the bug, or live with it.
I'm about to attempt a reinstall of Lion. I doubt it will help with anything, since I can't download a fresh copy from the App Store (apparently having 10.7.4 preinstalled means I can never have access to a fresh copy).
I'm concerned, as I have no idea if this sort of issue is contained only to this preference, or if it can end up screwing with me later on, say in the middle of an iPad app I'm developing.
The only work-around I can suggest: Don't close System Preferences for the entire time the Mac is on. If you log out or reboot, you'll have to set up your folders again, but if you never close System Preferences, they will remain.

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Desktop Wallpaper folders disappearing/reappearing in System Prefs

I recently upgraded to a 15 Inch MBP with Retina Display and I have a problem with desktop wallpapers. I migrated everything across from my old mac and when I go into System Prefs > Desktop & Screen Saver there is a list of all the folders I've added with all my wallpapers in. I've deleted these out because the wallpapers are no longer suitable for the new display. I've then added in a couple of new folders with retina wallpapers in and everything is fine. The problem occurs when I quit System Prefs and go back into it, all my old folders have reappeared and all my new folders have disappeared. Due to this problem sometimes when I boot up my MBP the wallpaper has changed to something random.
I'm getting a bit fed up with removing and adding the folders back in now, is there any reason why it might be doing this or is there a solution?

I purchased a Macbook Pro (2012, non-retina) and I have the same issue.
I went to the Genius Bar, and we went through the same steps I took before (deleting plist files, repairing permissions). The issue is system-wide; My admi account, Guests, new Users all experience it.
We could not solve the issue. The Genius' best answer was that this generation might have a bug in its particular build of 10.7.4. I ultimately had a choice of waiting for Apple to discover the bug, or live with it.
I'm about to attempt a reinstall of Lion. I doubt it will help with anything, since I can't download a fresh copy from the App Store (apparently having 10.7.4 preinstalled means I can never have access to a fresh copy).
I'm concerned, as I have no idea if this sort of issue is contained only to this preference, or if it can end up screwing with me later on, say in the middle of an iPad app I'm developing.
The only work-around I can suggest: Don't close System Preferences for the entire time the Mac is on. If you log out or reboot, you'll have to set up your folders again, but if you never close System Preferences, they will remain.

Desktop Wallpaper folders disappearing in System Prefs

Whenever i try to add a picture folder to the system preferences to manage my wallpapers, the instant i close the system prefs window, all the folders i added disappears...
I'm on mountain lion on a brand new install from 2 days ago. I never had this problem on Lion or Mountain Lion (before i made a clean install)...
I found 3 other post from people with the same issue, do you know what the problem might be and what to do to fix this? It's really annoying!
Here are the 3 others posts about this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4105775?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19170719#19170719
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=15556826#post15556826
Thanks for your help!

i just hung up with an apple tech on the phone and i happens that he have the exact same problem on his computer.
So i guess it's an Apple problem and it should be addressed in an upcoming patch...

Windows 8.1 Desktop wallpaper not shown if Explorer is not running

Hi,
I set wallpaper image using registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"Wallpaper"="C:\\Windows\\Web\\Wallpaper\\Windows\\img0.jpg"
Problem is that I need to show wallpaper WITHOUT explorer running.
W7 and W8: If explorer is running, wallpaper is shown correctly.
W8: If I end task "Windows Explorer" via task manager, wallpaper disappear and only blank (dark blue) screen is shown.
W7: If I end task explorer.exe wallpaper is still shown.
Anyone knows how to show a image without explorer running on Windows 8?
Regards,
Tomas Ryba

Hello Tomas Ryba,
After lots of test and research, I still can’t find a solution to meet this requirement.
I tried to use the process monitor to capture the registry and process activity in Windows 8 and Windows 7, but can’t find the resolution.
I think this setting is by design.
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
Fangzhou CHEN
TechNet Community Support

Mountain Lion desktop wallpaper won't change!

Hi guys,
Hope somone can help with this, it's been bugging me ever since I upgraded to Mountain Lion!
Whenever I change the desktop wallpaper with any of the ones provided on my Mac and reboot my laptop it reverts back to the original wallpaper that was set back during Lion (OS X 10.7) before the upgrade. I'm currently running the latest update (10.8.1) on my MacBook Pro Retina and still having the same problem!
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

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I'm hoping someone can answer this for me. I would like to be able to set the desktop wallpaper based on the current screen resolution when a user logs in. I've made several .BMP files for varying resolutions with our corporation logo. But, say
if a wallpaper for a resolution of 1024x768 on a 4:3 monitor is set, then that monitor is replaced with a 16:10 monitor with a resolution of 1280x800 or 1600x900, the wallpaper looks stretched out and ugly. The only way to change it is manually on
each computer, but most end users (students) would not have permissions to do so.
I thought this question would have been asked before, but after many, many searches, I've only come across one reference that copies the background from a network share to a location on the local computer, which I found
here. In my case, the file will already be on the local computer, but I am not sure how to force the system to change the wallpaper based on the current screen resolution. I'm sure it is possible and maybe I am overlooking something very simple. I
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this to happen on the local machine instead of GPO or logon script as there is already a lot happening there.
I would need to be able to do this for both Windows XP Pro and Windows 7 Ent x64. The XP machines will mostly have 4:3 monitors, but there are exceptions.
Maybe what I am asking isn't entirely possible or possible at all. I, unfortunately, am in the extremely early stages of learning Microsoft Scripting (VBScript and PowerShell) to use with MDT 2010, so I know next to nothing when it comes to these scripting
processes, but am willing to try and learn.
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I almost abandoned this because I thought it was going to interfere with using BGInfo. But, as it turns out, I was able to incorporate the running of BGInfo into a script that I
created. And, once I saw what 16:10 Aspect Ratio background looked like on a 16:9 Aspect Ratio screen, I was not satisfied.
I happened to use the first script that MkShffr posted from geekshangout.com, but then I added more items to it. I also created three high-res wallpaper backgrounds as suggested
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is much cleaner.
And, because BGInfo wants to change the Picture Position to "Tile" instead of "Fit" that I manually set it to in my image, I added two reg key change lines per Case. BGInfo still
changes the Picture Position to "Tile", but for whatever reason, this works. I tested this by using a laptop with a 16:9 Aspect Ratio screen. In my image, I manually set a 16:10 wallpaper because that will be the primary Aspect Ratio used in our corporation,
however we are getting more 16:9 Aspect Ratio laptops and from what HP is saying, everything will be standardizing on this Aspect Ratio.
I made sure the Screen profile that I saved in my image was loaded which includes the 16:10 wallpaper. I then placed this script in the “C:\ProgramData\Wallpaper_Change”
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which I will be doing in the next day or two.
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in the future.
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Option Explicit
Dim array_ScreenRes, screenRes_X, screenRes_Y, oIE, width, height, aspect_ratio
Dim decpos, wallpaper1, wallpaper2, wallpaper3, oShell
array_ScreenRes = GetScreenResolution
screenRes_X = array_ScreenRes(0)
screenRes_Y = array_ScreenRes(1)
wallpaper1="C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\TSC\Win 7 - 2560 x 1440 (16-9)TSC.bmp"
wallpaper2="C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\TSC\Win 7 - 2560 x 1600 (16-10)TSC.bmp"
wallpaper3="C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\TSC\Win 7 - 2560 x 1920 (4-3)TSC.bmp"
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aspect_ratio = screenRes_X/screenRes_Y
decpos=instr(aspect_ratio,".")+2
aspect_ratio=left(aspect_ratio,decpos)
'wscript.echo "Aspect Ratio is " & aspect_ratio
Select Case aspect_ratio
Case "1.77"
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper"), wallpaper1
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General\WallpaperSource"), wallpaper1
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\TileWallpaper"), "0"
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\WallpaperStyle"), "6"
Case "1.6"
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper"), wallpaper2
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General\WallpaperSource"), wallpaper2
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\TileWallpaper"), "0"
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\WallpaperStyle"), "6"
Case "1.33"
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper"), wallpaper3
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General\WallpaperSource"), wallpaper3
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\TileWallpaper"), "0"
oShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\WallpaperStyle"), "6"
End Select
oShell.Run "%windir%\System32\RUNDLL32.exe user32.dll,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters", 1, True
oShell.Run "C:\ProgramData\BGInfo\BGInfo.exe C:\ProgramData\BGInfo\TSC.bgi /timer:0"
Function GetScreenResolution()
Set oIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
With oIE
    .Navigate("about:blank")
    Do Until .readyState = 4: wscript.sleep 100: Loop
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    height = .document.ParentWindow.screen.height
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oIE.Quit
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Desktop Wallpaper Switching Problems

My computer has been working really great for a long time and now I am having a problem with my desktop wallpaper. Whenever I play a song in iTunes as it switches to the next song it changes my desktop wallpaper to the default for when you install OS X. Is there a fix? I'd like to not have to reinstall the OS, but I can if there isn't an easier way. I am willing to delve into folders and such, so any suggestions are really helpful. Thanks,
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System Preferences:
Macintoash HD > Library > Desktop Pictures
Here is the additional information on my MBP:
MacBook Pro 15" (I bought it in Janurary)
2.4 GHz Intel Core i7
4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
750GB HD
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Short answer is YES you can copy and paste those images from any Mac on to any other Mac. I did that from SL that had many more selections then Lion did.

Why with Mavericks some folders just disappear and reappear randomly for just a few seconds?

Why with Mavericks some folders just disappear and reappear randomly for just a few seconds?

Hi Alinc,
I find that this happens with folders that either have a lot of stuff in them, when there is a lot of large files on my desktop, or when my computer has it's RAM bogged down. I'm guessing it's just a benign performance issue, and so far it hasn't cause me any serous problems except for one folder that constantly take a while to load but I'm not surprised because that folder has 8000+ files and is over 25GB in size LOL.
If this is still an issue for you, or you folders disappear for so long that it becomes an inconvenience, I would recommend trying the following things:
1) Save your work and close any open programs, but don't close your Finder folders though. Click the Apple Logo  in the upper left hand corner of the screen, then choose Force Quit. In the windows that comes up select Finder and choose Relaunch. This should force all of your open Finder folders to get refreshed. Please note this is a very brute force operation so it might be the most elegant solution.
2) A better but less potent thing to try is cleaning up you finder folders. If like me you have hundreds of files in one folder, or there is more than a gigabyte of data in the first level of the folder, then it might be a good idea to clean it up by moving some of those files into subfolders.
3) This is my favorite fix to try, and I recommend it to almost everyone because it's super easy and has a reasonable chance of improving your computer's performance at least a little bit.
3.a) Go to Disk Utility, and click on your hard drive.
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3.c) Once those operations are complete click on your Macintosh HD partition (right below the hard drive you clicked before) and repeat step 3.b.
3.d) If you have any other connected hard drives or partitions you can do this for them as well. BUT, I don't recommend doing this on any Windows formatted drives, like FAT or NTFS, or your Bootcamp partition — although the First Aid buttons on the Bootcamp will probably be disabled anyway.
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Vlad

Desktop Wallpaper Issue

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where do you have your wallpapers stored? you may find that having them on an external drive might make them not appear on startup (could be a sign of a failing HD), which will then make the mac revert back to the factory settings.
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go to system prefereces>spotlight, then click Privacy. Hit the plus button at the bottom of the white window with things that you've set private. Find where your wallpapers are stored and add it to the privacy list. Now select that same drive you just added and remove it from the privacy list. This will make spotlight reindex that folder and you will hopefully have your wallpapers back. You may have to reset them.
also, next time you do the major switching, instead of closing System Preferences and reopening them constantly, you can right click system prefernces icon (when on the dock) and choose options>All Desktops.
This way, the application window will follow you going to the different spaces. unclick the setting when you don't want it to do that anymore.

In my Macbook Pro, on a few occassions, the apple menu bar blacks out. its displayed as a negative image. The desktop wallpaper get greyed out and i get a blank screen as wallpaper. No idea why this happens. I reset the system and issue gets resolved.

In my Macbook Pro, on a few occassions, the apple menu bar blacks out. its displayed as a negative image. The desktop wallpaper get greyed out and i get a blank screen as wallpaper. No idea why this happens. I reset the system and issue gets resolved.

AshwinVC wrote:
I reset the system and issue gets resolved.
How?

How do I set the desktop wallpaper with an image in aperture 3?

Sorry for the silly question, but I can't find how to set my desktop wallpaper with an image in aperture 3. It was simple when using Iphoto, but I can't find the method in aperture.
Thanks,
Dale.

Command(⌘)-9 is no longer listed in the list of default keyword shortcuts, and it has no effect.
I wrote a little Automator service to bring the Command(⌘)-9 back.
A copy of this service is here for download:
http://dreschler-fischer.de/scripts/SetDesktopPicture.workflow.zip
This service uses three actions:
Aperture: Get selected images
Export Masters
Finder: Set the Desktop Picture
To install it, open the workflow in Automator and save it as service.
To use it, select any image in Aperture, then activate the service from the Aperture menu -> Services, and it will set the master of the selected image as Desktop picture.
If you like, you can assign the Command(⌘)-9 key to the service (in the System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts Panel) and then turn any image you selected into Desktop wallpaper by simply pressing (⌘)-9.
@Frank Caggiano, if you are still following this thread: for some reason this workflow succeeds with exporting the master, but I could not get it to work with the versions instead. Any ideas?
Caution: this service will clutter the Desktop with the exported images. If you want to avoid that, change the export action to export the image to a different folder.
Regards
Léonie

Desktop Wallpaper shows blank in windows 7 and works in win xp & win 8.

Dear MS Support,
We have applied one newly designed Desktop Wallpaper for all our computers in GAVS. It is not working in win 7 and it works in Win XP and in Win 8.
I have searched in Microsoft forums and they mentioned to install one hotfix. I tried to install and it is not working..
Our Group Policy and working and I can able to see the wallpaper path in my registry settings..
Kindly help me to fix this issue..
Given below the hotfix url…
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;977944&sd=rss&spid=14481

Hi,
After you applied the policy, what wallpaper will the Desktop of Windows 7 change to? Is it a solid colour desktop? If not, The Hotfix should not work in this case.
Here is a very good troubleshooting guide for Wallpaper Group Policy.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2011/12/13/wallpaper-deployment-troubleshooting.aspx
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TechNet Community Support

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Hi Team,
I have created Desktop wallpaper GPO for our environment and the Desktop wallpaper is applying on XP machines not windows 7 professional, so could you please help me with this issue ?

Hi
Could please check the article about method 2 for configure a registry key wallpaper configuration;
http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2011/03/best-practice-using-group-policy-to-configure-desktop-wallpaper-background/

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Hi all,
On rebooting my Late '12 iMac, the desktop wallpaper always reverts back to the default Yosemite one. The wallpaper is stored in a folder on my USB 3.0 ext drive, and when the desktop appears the icon is there for the external drive and ai can browse and re-set the wallpaper.
Also, possibly related, I have an icon for Steam on my Dock, which becomes a question mark upon reboot as if Yosemite can no longer find the app. Steam is also stored externally. However like above, I can click the icon and the Mac is able to see and launch steam no problems, and the question mark then reverts back to the steam icon.
The iMac has been upgraded by myself so that internal drive is a Samsung Evo 840 SSD. As crazy as it sounds I almost think that the Mac is booting (which takes around 6 seconds from grey Apple to logon screen) faster than it is reading the external drive. But what is weirder is that the logon screen has a blurred version of the correct wallpaper behind it, which flicks the default Yosemite one when I login.
Any ideas?

dannytheone wrote:
On rebooting my Late '12 iMac, the desktop wallpaper always reverts back to the default Yosemite one. The wallpaper is stored in a folder on myly, USB 3.0 ext drive, and when the desktop appears the icon is there for the external drive and ai can browse and re-set the wallpaper.
Also, possibly related, I have an icon for Steam on my Dock, which becomes a question mark upon reboot as if Yosemite can no longer find the app. Steam is also stored externally. However like above, I can click the icon and the Mac is able to see and launch steam no problems, and the question mark then reverts back to the steam icon.
The iMac has been upgraded by myself so that internal drive is a Samsung Evo 840 SSD. As crazy as it sounds I almost think that the Mac is booting (which takes around 6 seconds from grey Apple to logon screen) faster than it is reading the external drive. But what is weirder is that the logon screen has a blurred version of the correct wallpaper behind it, which flicks the default Yosemite one when I login.
Any ideas?
It doesn't actually sound crazy, except for the thing with the blurred wallpaper which does sound odd. The easy way to test it would be to move your preferred wallpaper to your boot drive to see if it loads at boot. I'm assuming it will. In my limited testing of Yosemite, the wallpaper choice sticks, as it should, but it's on my boot drive.
Have you noticed if the problem of drives being improperly ejected when system wakes from sleep has been corrected in Yosemite?

Desktop Wallpaper folders added disappear

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