Pictures on the desktop

Does anyone know how to change the time period that photos will rollover on the desk top. Currently I have 5-second, 1, 5, 15 and 30 minutes. I want to hold the photos for 10-15 seconds before they change. Is there any way this can be achieved??

Yes, I figured so. My system behaves weirdly, regularly. Not only did it nopt come up, when I would highlight 'desktop...' in the preferences it would just vanish. Then I'd hit the back arrow, go back into preferences and eventually it would stay, but not show "background", but by going back over and over it finally worked. Then it did the same in my second user account- but, again, finally worked. Only in that account the background is oversized and the little "tile/center/stretch to fit/fit" window in the desktop doesn't appear and can't be found. All part of the weird world of Apple. I've actually lost everything after three months due to hd corruption, then three months later had to have the hd replaced. Apple chat is very helpful though and the service is excellent though shouldn't be needed.

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This then exhausts my ammunition on this item.
Your post of Dec 12, 2011 3:33 AM seems to raise a new problem;
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I suggest you repost this with more details, thus increasing you audience.
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or in a folder. Some of my pictures show a JPEG Icon and some show the actual small icon picture. How do I turn all of them to a picture?
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SP

I've noticed this too. It's actually somewhat annoying, as you can't get all icons to be previews, but for most, it's possible.
For photos on the desktop:
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For all other Finder windows:
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I was wondering if there was a way to use Applescript with Firefox (or another browser)...?
We have many many villas on our website, each one with lots of pictures. We are constantly adding new villas to our site and amending old ones.
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