Folder mysteriously disappeared after update. Umm... help?

Question

Greetings,
Here's the problem: I had a folder for my desktop pictures which sat happily in my "Pictures" folder before the 10.5 update. It was used as the target folder in the desktop bg system setting. Since upgrading to 10.5 the new desktop bg setting panel shows my wallpaper folder neatly under "Folders" but the folder itself is nowhere to be found in the Finder - not even with Spotlight. Neither any of the files within that folder. They show up in system settings (and all wallpapers seem to be functional) but in the Finder, the folder is gone.
Although I'm not exactly missing some valuable work files here this is still unsettling, somehow. Does anyone have any idea what could have happened here?
I'd greatly appreciate any thought.

Answer 1

I actually didn't know that there is a window capturing feature in OSX.
If you want the whole Desktop, icons open windows and all, use Command-Shift-3. To capture an open window of any sort, Command-Shift-4, hit the Spacebar, and click the little camera cursor inside the window. You may noctice that the cursor is a crosshairs before you hit the Spacebar, you can click and drag to select any retangular area for your screenshot.
Oh, and for Spotlight to return results inside any system folder (and for reasons that elude comprehension your home ~/Library folder is counted as a system folder), you need to explicitly tell Spotlight you want those results. See my article on Spotlight here:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html
Might give you some other hints too on using Spotlight effectively in Leopard.
Francine
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