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  Schroedinger's Desktop Picture rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-01 21:45 +0100
    Re: Schroedinger's Desktop Picture Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-02-01 16:18 -0700
      Re: Schroedinger's Desktop Picture rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-03 22:41 +0100
    Re: Schroedinger's Desktop Picture Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-01 23:30 +0000
      Re: Schroedinger's Desktop Picture rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> - 2015-02-03 22:37 +0100
        Re: Schroedinger's Desktop Picture Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-02-03 13:38 -0800
        Re: Schroedinger's Desktop Picture Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-02-04 00:48 +0000

#69446 — Schroedinger's Desktop Picture

[Mac OS X 10.8.5]

System Prefs->Desktop claims to be using a different picture than is 
actually shown as Desktop background.

The real problem is that I really like the picture that does show as 
Desktop background, but I cannot find the original picture file. I'm 
beginning to think I must have accidentally deleted it. Yet it is still 
displayed as the Desktop picture. Which suggests that Finder doesn't 
display the original file, but stores a copy somewhere. But where?

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist also points to the wrong 
file.

Same with:

tell app "System Events"
  picture of desktop 1
end tell
--> path to another picture file.

Still, Finder's Desktop does display the image I'm looking for. So it 
must be somewhere.

Any ideas?

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#69452

In article <rijk-8B6994.21451001022015@news.xs4all.nl>, rijk
<rijk@blah.invalid> wrote:

> [Mac OS X 10.8.5]
> 
> System Prefs->Desktop claims to be using a different picture than is 
> actually shown as Desktop background.
> 
> The real problem is that I really like the picture that does show as 
> Desktop background, but I cannot find the original picture file. I'm 
> beginning to think I must have accidentally deleted it. Yet it is still 
> displayed as the Desktop picture. Which suggests that Finder doesn't 
> display the original file, but stores a copy somewhere. But where?
> 
> ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist also points to the wrong 
> file.
> 
> Same with:
> 
> tell app "System Events"
>   picture of desktop 1
> end tell
> --> path to another picture file.
> 
> Still, Finder's Desktop does display the image I'm looking for. So it 
> must be somewhere.
> 
> Any ideas?

Quit the finder and take a screen shot (command-shift-4 and press the
space bar).  That will make a copy of the desktop picture, so you won't
have to find the original.  (Command-shift-3 won't do it because it
will include the menu bar.)

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#69492

In article <010220151618203753%michelle@michelle.org>,
 Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <rijk-8B6994.21451001022015@news.xs4all.nl>, rijk
> <rijk@blah.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > [Mac OS X 10.8.5]
> > 
> > System Prefs->Desktop claims to be using a different picture than is 
> > actually shown as Desktop background.
> > 
> > […]
> 
> Quit the finder and take a screen shot (command-shift-4 and press the
> space bar).  That will make a copy of the desktop picture, so you won't
> have to find the original.  (Command-shift-3 won't do it because it
> will include the menu bar.)

Heh, that worked. Nice hack :) Thanks.

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#69454

Okay, so one time? In band camp? rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> was all, like:
> Still, Finder's Desktop does display the image I'm looking for. So it 
> must be somewhere.

> Any ideas?

plutil -p ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist

The first ImageFilePath should be it. Maybe. It's not on mine, but I am
using the default desktop currently.


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#69490

In article <slrnmctdqc.1j75.g.kreme@kreme.eternal-september.org>,
 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

[…]

> plutil -p ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
> 
> The first ImageFilePath should be it.

No, that points to the earlier mentioned wrong image file.

Btw, where did you get the -p option from? man plutil doesn't list that.

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#69491

On 2015-02-03 21:37:25 +0000, rijk said:

> In article <slrnmctdqc.1j75.g.kreme@kreme.eternal-september.org>,
>  Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> 
> […]
> 
>> plutil -p ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
>> 
>> The first ImageFilePath should be it.
> 
> No, that points to the earlier mentioned wrong image file.
> 
> Btw, where did you get the -p option from? man plutil doesn't list that.

It does in the version of plutil I'm running under 10.9...

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#69494

Okay, so one time? In band camp? rijk <rijk@blah.invalid> was all, like:
> In article <slrnmctdqc.1j75.g.kreme@kreme.eternal-september.org>,
>  Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> […]

>> plutil -p ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
>> 
>> The first ImageFilePath should be it.

> No, that points to the earlier mentioned wrong image file.

> Btw, where did you get the -p option from? man plutil doesn't list that.

It does for me:

-p   Print the property list in a human-readable fashion. The
     output format is not stable and not designed for machine 
     parsing. The purpose of this command is to be able to 
     easily read the contents of a plist file, no matter what
     format it is in.

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