Login picture changed

On the start up screen my login picture changed, all on it's own!!! I've had a lot of the spinning wheel of
death, could this be part of the problem. I tried to do a safe mode start up but you have to hold down the
Shift Key when you hear the start up tone...I have no tone : (
Any thoughts ideas, my Apple Care expired less than 30 days ago (of course) and they won't let me
purchase it again...grrrr.

Restart the computer and hold down the Command and R keys. Forget the tone. When you get to the Recovery partition, run Disk Utility and choose Repair Disk. See if that runs successfully or comes back with problems.

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If you moved or deleted the photo it will default to a stock image.

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Is it possible to change it ?
NOTE: I am referring to the Login Window which is accessed via my name at the end of the menu bar next to Spotlight.

Sorry ....... I discovered how to do it here:-
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7463981&#7463981

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I have my contact information in the address book with a photo of me. Then I have my account user picture a different picture. After waking the computer after sleep or screensaver the login dialogue box picture changes to the one I have set up for my contact info. It's annoying.

You are correct - it is very annoying! I haven't found a way to disable that yet - other than by deleting the picture in the Address Book.
Give Apple some feedback!
Cheers,
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I want to use a photo from my iphoto library for my login picture. When ever I go through system preferences I can't choose from there. Please help!

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
To use a photo stored on iPhoto as your login picture, follow these steps:
1. Open System Preferences > Users & Groups and select your user in the sidebar.
2. Open iPhoto and select the photo you want to use as your login picture.
3. Drag this photo from iPhoto to your login picture box on System Preferences, so a popup will appear to adjust the photo and use it as your login picture

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Select your account in the Users and Grouops pane of System Preferences. Click on your current account photo on the right side of the screen. In the dropdown that shows up, you can use the sidebar to choose faces and recents from iPhoto, or take a picture using the built in FaceTime camera. Another alternitive is to drag the new photo on top of the old one, and it will replace it.

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I've changed from a 1st gen MBP to a latest gen one. Transferred all from the old to the new via firewire during the initial setup.
All is working OK.
BUT: when I want to change the login picture of my account (admin and only one) I can change it but it doesn't stick, i.e. it does not change the picture on the left list where the users are.
This should be a nobrainer but I can't get it working.
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That's because your login picture isn't actually saved in your own user's home directory. It's in a rather odd place -- not sure why Apple did it this way, but here's the solution:
You'll find it lives here:
Macintosh HD -> Library -> Caches -> com.apple.user501picture.Cache.tiff
Note that '501' is the Unix userID number of the first user account created on the box. If you have more than one user, then you'll find more than one file (e.g. a 'com.apple.user502picture.Cache.tiff', etc.). Since you used the account migration utility when you first set it up then your accounts will have identical Unix user ID numbers on each machine (you wont need to worry about renaming them).
Just copy the file from the old machine to that same location on the new machine. You may have to reboot after the copy before the picture shows up.
What I find really odd about this is that it lives in a folder named 'Caches'. A 'Cache' is, by definition, not authoritative (e.g. it implies that the real data lives somewhere else), but I ran into this same issue and have scoured my hard drive in search of another location and this is the only one. Also... the folks at the local Apple Genius Bar report the same thing (this is the only place it's stored).
Some these kids... "Bad Apple Software Engineer! NO BISCUIT!" =)

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Step 1
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res
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resetpassword
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Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button
Select
 ▹ Restart
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When I share a pages document as a PDF (via e-mail) all the pictures change from the original document, most are missing with just a few of them repeated in the spots where others had been. How do I do this without the document changing?

When I share a pages document as a PDF (via e-mail) all the pictures change from the original document, most are missing with just a few of them repeated in the spots where others had been. How do I do this without the document changing?
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Peter
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I just re-installed my tiger system from scratch (boot camp issue) and finally managed to get the system almost identical to the one I had backed up. One minor remaining issue is the login picture. I liked the one I snapped previously and would like to select it again. Unfortunately, I cannot ascertain where these images are stored. I even created a couple of new ones from the System Prefs -> Accounts -> Picture -> Edit location and then did a spotlight search for images created since yesterday but nothing showed up.
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Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately I can't check in my old system address book. Or at least I don't think I can (I'm at work now and can't verify this).
What I did was this: I backed up my entire drive to an external drive, wiped the internal drive, and re-installed OSX. I then manually copied all of my preferences etc. back to make my new system as identical to the old one as I could. I tried to use the migration assistant but since it didn't find any old systems (it didn't consider my backup a true system) it couldn't do the migration.
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