Desktop wallpaper on external drive not retained after reboot

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?

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