[SOLVED] Gnome 3.6 Background Pictures folder

Hey guys,
Like many of you I just upgraded to Gnome 3.6. After upgrade I am experiancing some rather strange behavior, that I was hoping someone would be able to help me figure out. It is probably embarssingly simple.
When I go into settings and go to "Background" to change my desktop background I am given a little GUI with four options at the top, "Wallpaper", "Pictures", "Colors", "Flickr".
Under the "Pictures" option, I see images that I have, at one time or another, used as wallpapers on this computer, but many of them I no longer even have the source files for. I also see no way to add new Picutres to this menu as new potiential backgrounds. I thought that perhaps the "Pictures" menu was going to pull data from the Pictures folder in my home directory, but alas, it does not.
So my questions are, how do I add new backgrounds in gnome 3.6? Why is gnome 3.6 not reading images from my Pictures folder? And where are these copies of images that I already deleted being stored?
I did run
$ sudo find / -type f -name *.jpg -print
and I can't find anything on my system that would be a copy of these old images. The sources were jpgs.
Thanks for the help,
David
Last edited by zdevex (2012-11-01 18:05:43)

My apologies for the slight necro-bump but I did a little digging in the wiki and found this very helpful piece of info:
For any users that don't have any of the default folders such as Pictures, Downloads, etc, you can install and run:
pacman -S xdg-user-dirs
xdg-user-dirs-update
everything in the Gnome places menu will be sorted and putting pictures in the 'Pictures' folder works!

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