Missing Desktop Images Folder from Library

I just went to switch my desktop image to one of the standard apple images in the in Desktop Preferences option and I have come to find that none of the stock desktop images that are installed with OS X are in this option anymore. Upon further inspection I have come to find that the Desktop Images or Desktop Wallpapers folder does not exist in the Library folder.
Anyone know a way I can regain that folder and those images without having to start from scratch?
13 inch Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.10)

No wallflower on a Mac. It's Desktop Pictures. Download Pacifist (free trial), pop in your Tiger install disk, launch Pacifist, select the install disk, then search for Desktop Pictures, and extract it to the Desktop. Put it in /Library/, restart, and you should be good to go.

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If someone can please shed any light on this problem?
After first switch on of the new year.... my desktop image had changed and when I went into the desktop image folder it was empty.... all of my iPhoto images
are still ok... just the desktop images that appear to be missing???
Not the end of the world but curious to know why this has pahhened and if anything else will have changed that I don't know about???
Any help greatly appreciated.
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To see your user folder in the Finder sidebar open a Finder window. From the menu choose Finder > Preferences to open the Finder Preferences window. Under Favorites check your name (the user name you choose for yourself). Your username will show up in the Finder sidebar. You can also check Pictures to see to hopefully show the link to your iPhoto Library.
By default your iPhoto Library will be in your Pictures Folder unless you moved it.
This short video on YouTube explains it well: Display Missing Finder Sidebar / Icons - Mac OS X Mavericks - YouTube
If you still need help I would do to the Apple Support Communities at Welcome | Apple Support Communities since the Finder and iPhoto are both both Apple products.

I've MacBook Pro 2009 model... from last few days my airport is not functional. This happened when I deleted list com.apple..... from systems folder from library- preference- system. Now, when you check the status of Airport hardware it says "Not

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Thank you for your reply......
I have tried using different OS 10.7, 10.8... further OS doesn't suit my MacBook, so currently I am on 10.6. I did reinstallation twice using 10.6 but the files were not restored.
Yes.. I am talking about internet wireless card.
I don't have back up files for files which i deleted and they are not in trash as well.... the reason I deleted files was from the image attached from OSXdaily.com
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now what do I do.??

Is it safe to delete the cache file folder from library

is it safe to delete the cache file folder from library ?

As I understand it Robo doesn't really 'do' third-party
source control. We use SourceGear Vault, but really only as a
repository for the files. We can't really work concurrently because
Robo needs exclusive access to the top level project files. But it
kind of works for us, because we're on opposite sides of the globe.
I see what you're saying on the 'local' versions of (say) the
cpd files conflicting. If anyone else has an informed view, I'm all
ears. We've set it up this way ourselves - I don't know of anyone
doing the same. If someone tells me this is a bad idea, I'm happy
to think again.
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Mucking with the desktop images folder

I have the desktop background image randomly rotating through a folder on my system. The problem I've run into, is that I'd like to be able to add and remove images from the folder (I have a script that pulls in photos from friends flickr streams, etc, and removes old ones so as not to fill my hd). However, the "desktop image rotator" doesn't seem to like this. If I remove the image currently shown, it will simply stop rotating. I've also noticed that it can get into a state where, when it does the cross-fade between images, it'll show some random image, but only during the cross fade. That is, it starts with image A displayed. When the cross fade starts it immediately jumps to some random image X then cross fades to image B. The cross fade ends with image B displayed for the rotation interval, then the cross fade starts again by immediately switching to a random image Y, then smoothly cross fading to C, which is again shown for the normal interval.
So, instead of A->B->C, I get A->X->B->Y->C (note, all of these images are randomly pulled from the directory. Just because I used letters in order doesn't imply that I'm actually expecting images to be pulled in any order from the folder).
The really odd part is that the X and Y images are usually images that no longer exist. Does the desktop image rotator copy the images it's using for the background somewhere else? That seems odd.
So, in the end what I'm asking is "Is there a safe way to remove images from whatever image folder the desktop image rotator is using?"
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do you see ANY of your files when you look at the desktop? if yes control-click anywhere on the desktop and select 'arrange by kind'. this will reshuffle your desktop icons. see if the files you are missing become visible. they may have been placed offscreen somewhere.

Images imported from library are empty

Sorry, I did post this query a few days ago, and I did get a
response but unfortunately it did not help.
When I import my images to the library, I can see them fine
in the viewer window. However, when I drag the images to the stage
I get just an empty frame. I do not know what the problem is. I
have tried importing the same images into a stage on an older
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So, what can be the problem with Flash CS3.
I was advised by this forum to check to make sure the
"outlines" option was turned off on that layer. I tried this, but I
had no luck. Interestingly though if I work in Flash 8 on the same
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Hi
There are several layers to this.
a. There are no HD-DVD - DVD is as standard only Standard Definition as on old CRT-TVs and can never be anything btter as iPhoto showes on Your Mac screen (5 to 10 times higher resolution)
b. One can get a result less than iDVD SD quality and down to really bad by
• Using iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 - as they discard every second line in the picture = 50% loss
• Using iMovie HD6 and NO Ken Burns effect AND "Share to iDVD" as this also results in disaster (heavely pixelated Bad bad pictures) - (as iMovie will render badly)
c. I build my SlideShow in
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• FinalCut also delivers maximal quality over to iDVD
(from FCE/P - Export out as QuickTime .mov - NO QuickTime conversion (Important))
• iMovie'08 to 11 - I Share to Media Browser and as Large (not HD or other)
iMovie HD6/FinalCut + iDVD will give as high quality possibly to the resulting DVD.
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• Verbatim DVD-R
• set down burn speed to x4 (Plays better on many DVD-Players)
• Pro Quality encoding - I got the time and like the result
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Recently, on launch, Aperture reported that Photo Stream was not enabled (even though I had not changed settings since enabling). I (re)enabled it, but after doing so, only the most recent photos (for the past month or so) were recognized as being in the stream (even though aproximately an additional month's photos are still indicated as being in my stream on all my iOS devices — at least for the time being). More importantly (and clearly a SERIOUS BUG): all the missong photos that had already been downloaded to my Aperture library ("automatic import" is checked in preferences) were gone, not only from the library, but also deleted from all the albums (e.g. flickr, facebook) to which they had been published.
Is Photo Stream working? Automatic deletion of photos, including shared photos) seems like a big problem!

Yep, I and others have noticed it too. There's another thread here on the issue.
I am not talking about the Photstream shutting itself off issue (which IS happening for some people, but not me), but the situation wherein photos that have been automatically imported into "Oct. 2011 Photo Stream," "Nov 2011 Photo Stream," etc., disappear when their Photostream counterparts disappear. This essentially negates the entire usefulness of Photo Stream.
I have used one workaround, albeit a cumbersome one: rebuild your Aperture Library (hold down on command and option while double clicking on your Library to open Aperture). Your lost photos should show up in a "Recovered Photos" folder. I think this works because the masters that have been auto-imported from Photo Stream aren't really deleted from Aperture.
I hope Apple recognizes the problem and fixes it. There doesn't seem to be a big uproar about it, though. :-/

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I've used Dreamweaver CS4 to build my website, and I've become basically familiar with the way it works. Now I'm just starting to build a second site - and I've run into a baffling problem.
I've defined the new site in the normal way, and created the local root folder.
I've got a folder full of image files that is currently sitting in the local root folder of my old site - I'd like to put this into the local root folder of my new site.
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You should be able to access your entire computer directory structure through the Files Panel in Dreamweaver.
Click the drop down arrow next to the named site (the open site) at the top of the Files Panel and navigate up into the rest of your computer. You can then Ctrl-C (copy) the folder, re-select the name of your site (the green folders at the bottom of the directories, not in the computer structure), and Ctrl-V (paste) the folder where you want it. Contents will of course come with it.
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Problem removing folder from Lightroom

HI,
I'm new to Lightroom (using 5) and I am trying to get some photo uploads organized. When I imported them, they came in a folder that was poorly organized so I moved them into folders that I preferred. That was fine. BUT now the original folder in lightroom is empty (I deleted from finder after emptying it) and when I remove it from my lightroom ALL the other folders go with it. The funny part is, the total picture count still shows that all the pictures are in lightroom and accounted for, but the folders are no longer there and accessible.
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Your lack of tact was a little bit insulting, regardless of when it happened. No big deal though. I digress.
Since you cannot view folders in iTunes, you cannot delete folders thru iTunes.
You could put all the songs you want to delete into a playlist then select all the songs and Command Delete to delete them all at once.
That's the point. There should be an easier way. But putting them into a playlist before deleting them would be even more work than just deleting them the first time you click them. So this isn't really helpful either.
Ed's answer was helpful because he addressed the concerns of the original poster. But it also illustrated the need for iTunes programmers to include a feature to remove a folder from your iTunes library as easily as you can add them. If the best way to remove 200GB worth of music from your itunes library is to change the file extensions, then click to delete every single file with an exclamation point next to it; there is quite simply a flaw in design.
Apple iTunes programmers need to make the adjustment. Right next to the "File" command: "Add folder to library", you could have a command to "Remove folder from library." Or a "Manage Library" option would be great. Itunes obviously knows what folders it's library consists of so why not allow it to populate a list of them with the option to deselect undesired folders? Why hasn't this been done in one of the numerous iTunes updates? Is it really that hard to understand?

Sudden fading of desktop image

Well, this may seem like a trivial "problem" and it well may be but since I just bought this G5 and a costly 30" Apple display, I look at any "little" thing as possibly a sign of Major Trouble in my computer and/or display.
So, yesterday I was on the phone for hours with Apple about another issue (posted here if you have time to kill) and they had me do a million things to try to resolve it, nothing working. In the middle of one such operation I noticed that my desktop image suddenly went pale. I even mentioned it to the Apple woman but then I said maybe I've just been looking at it for too long.
After we hung up this pallid desktop pattern kept bothering me and I wanted to know for sure if it was my imagination or if something had "happened." I went into display settings and sure enough the calibration setting was on something weird - maybe it got there somehow during all the diagnostics Apple had me do. So I put it back to the correct setting but nothing changed as far as the desktop pattern quality.
The image is a gif that I downloaded from a cool website that has free desktop patterns and pictures. It maybe 2" x 2" and is tiled on the desktop. I went to the site, found the image, and sure enough, it's richer in tint, everything I had remembered. So I am thinking this cannot exactly be a display problem per se because I am looking at the same image on the website (perfect) and on my desktop (pale and washed out). So I think maybe it has something to do with the actual .gif - that something happened to it within the desktop image settings.
I remove it as a desktop image and from my files and trash it. I download it again from the site. When I look at it in Preview the colors are perfect. I even rename it. I put it in the desktop picture box and it fills the screen again as a tiled pattern, but as the same PALE washed out version. I try this several times all with the same result.
Then I remembered that I had sent this image to a friend so I found the email and took the attachment off and placed the image back in the desktop window. This time it worked. The image was as it should be, with all its rich tones. As a safeguard I emailed the .gif to myself at a yahoo account.
I could go back to the desktop pattern site and get the image again just to see if it would work properly from the start but I am afraid something will go wrong again and I have "resolved" the problem via the email attached .gif. Or maybe there is a real problem and I literally have covered it up by using the saved .gif.
Can anyone explain this to me? What misery could this indicate? Or can an image somehow suddenly get corrupted? What was really weird was that I kept downloading it from the site and it looked perfect UNTIL I put it in as a desktop image.
It's little things like this that drives some people to madness!
Thank you for reading.
G5 Quad Core Tower Mac OS X (10.4.8)

thanks kwamster, now where was i? well, i think onyX actually did fix the off-times. now they reflect reality. we will see how that holds up.
in the meanwhile i essentially was forced at gunpoint to do an archive/install, and while i feared it my system seems to be unscathed. however, the desktop image thing remains unresolved. i am getting around it for the moment with a version of the image i found that seems only a few shades off. i can live with it for now. it's not so much IT as what IT may be an indication of, hence the archive/install which didn't cure it.
now apple is talking of my doing an erase/install which you can believe i am not in the mood to do but then a tier 2 person suggested that maybe the problem was in that it was a .gif format, not a .jpg. he suggests i fool around with the image in photoshop, get it colorwize where i want it and then save it as a .jpg and put it in the desktop preference window. i think it's a brilliant idea but if there is an underlying Major Problem it is only a kind of Band-Aid solution. he said the next thing i could do before an erase/install would be a hardware diagnostic, run off the apple install disk.
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oh, part of what i did today was indeed create a new user and make a test of the image and had the same problem. that is what led to the archive/install because they said it was a system issue not a user issue, but again, it seems not to have changed anything.
also verified and or repaired the permissions several times.
oh well. i'm riding quite the learning curve here.
thank you for your kind words of encouragement, however. they ease the pain.

Desktop images changer question

I'm relatively new to using a Mac, so bear with me on this one: I have a MacBook Pro with the most recent version of OS X Leopard on it. I downloaded some wallpaper/desktop images off the Internet, created a separate folder for them inside the Library - Desktop Images folder, but I want to have the system change them at intervals, in random order, which is easy enough to do. I'd also like the system to cycle through all the desktop images in the desktop images folder, and not just the newly created Downloaded Images folder. Will Leopard do that automatically (or can it)? If not, is there a way to implement this?
Thank you, ahead of time.

you need to put all images in the same folder if you want the system to cycle through them It can't cycle through images in two different folders at once.

Apex listener images folder issue

Hi expert,
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My installation step as below;
1. I copy images folder from database server apex\images folder to apex listener installation folder before i install apex listener (called "apexlistener").
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Hi,
Too many questions, and too little input, for one post.
I'm newbies in oracle apex listener and would like to know more about oracle apex listener from all the expertise.My situation is like that i would like to install apex listener (standalone mode) in a server to browser apex application from another server with oracle database 11g and oracle apex development.
My installation step as below;
1. I copy images folder from database server apex\images folder to apex listener installation folder before i install apex listener (called "apexlistener").
2. Run cmd "java -Dapex.home=c:\apexlistener -Dapex.images=c:\apexlistener\images -Dapex.port=8585 -Dapex.erase -jar c:\apexlistener\apex.war" to install apex listener.
Just a question, if i amended oracle apex application in database server, should i need to copy the images folder again to apex listener server?
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The images folder has a relation with the Apex Version installed on the database, not with the applications in the Apex.
Depends on what you mean by amending applications. If you add custom CSS, JS ,etc to the application , and are not uploading the files to WORKSPACE_IMAGES, then you need to copy the external files to the images folder. But not copy it all over again.
If no custom files then no need to copy the images folder.
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What is the main source in images folder used in oracle apex listener server?
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The images folder, what else?
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My experience is i tried to copy images folder from database server A with apex application (in runtime mode) to apexlistener folder server B. And i configure the database connection to server c with same oracle apex application as well. I tried to browser oracle apex application in server c from server B. I found out my apex application is not running properly due to the javascript is not installed properly. I would like to ask, is the images files in apex listener server must same with apex application server?
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As stated earlier, the contents of the images (/i/) folder are related to the Apex Version. If your two db servers have different versions of Apex then the same images folder will not work with both. It will work with only one, the one that has the Apex Version compatible with the images folder.
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Anyone have idea on automatically start apex listener when the server reboots?
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How to suggest without knowing OS?
You can write a batch file that runs on bootup to achieve this.
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How to run apex listener in backend?
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What is backend? Do you means background or as a service?
Cheers,

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Thanks for the timely reply Jeff. I've just tried something that might have worked. I went into System prefs and in Energy Saver and unchecked the Automatic Graphics Switching. The guy who I bought this from is also our Post Production I.T. guy and mentioned that with the apps running the GFX card(s) (w/ the virtual card) is hoggin up the GFX ram or something so it doesn't want to render out the wallpaper image and save the GFX power for the app being used.
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TS1995 I have a folder on my desktop labeled i photo library, it contains all my albums from i photo . The problem is none of them are j.pegs they are documents. How do i gwt them back to j.pegs?

I have a folder on my desktop, labeled i-photo library, it contains all my albums from i photo that i had inadvertently deleted. The problem is they are not j.pegs but documents. How do I get them back to j.pegs?

YOu need to tell us a lot more
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What do youy mean by albums? In iPHoto albums do not actaully exist - they are logical organizational elements and are only pointers to photos in the library? what happens when you launch iPhto? Do you have an iPhoto library in yoru pictures folder?
what ohter details na you provide?
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