I am unable to change my desktop image

In System Prefs, selected Desktop & Screensaver. Selected image from pane at right. Used to be the desktop image would change as soon as I clicked on it. Now, nothing happens. Same results when I select an Apple image vs my own jpeg. Checked Help, and I am following the instructions. Thanks for any help offered!

Your System Preferences preference file has become corrupted and unable to save your changes.
Use the Finder Go To Folder and type
/Library/Preferences
and click GO.
A window will pop up and scroll down until you find the file
com.apple.systempreferences.plist
drag it to the trash (note there may be two of them, one is locked original, delete the other one you can move)
Now reboot the computer and launch System Preferences, you will now be able to save your changes.
See more tips here
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

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