Ok thanks Ronnie, I'll implement that when back at base. Thanks for confirming my thinking on the cause of this issue.
Regards Pete > On 17 Jun 2014, at 7:17 am, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > If your wallpaper changes back to default after reboot or after logout it is > because the wallpaper you set is on another drive and this drive loads after > your settings are loaded. > > Lion / Mountain Lion/ Mavericks does not save your wallpaper on the native > HDD, rather tries to load the wallpaper from the original HDD, only the path > to the wallpaper is saved in the OS X settings. > When your OS X boots up it does not find the path to your wallpaper since the > HDD you've saved your wallpapers in has not mounted yet. > > One basic solution for this is to save your wallpapers in the HDD where > you've installed the Mac OS X > 1. Create a new folder, called My Desktop Images within the~/[Your user > name]/Pictures folder. > > 2. Open a new Finder window and navigate to ~/[Your user name]/Pictures/My > Desktop Images > > 3. Navigate to > System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver and ensure > that the Desktop button is selected. > > 4. With Finder open, drag the My Desktop Images folder to the Desktop & > Screen saver system preferences pane. When you see a white plus symbol inside > a green circle, release the mouse and the folder will be added. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > >> On 17 Jun 2014, at 6:46 am, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >> >> Hi there, I have a recurring minor thing occurring with my new 2014 13" >> Retina MBP. I use an external drive to hold my iPhoto library and I usually >> select a photo from the iPhoto library as a desktop picture. >> >> Whenever I next reboot the MBP, the desktop image reverts to the default >> Mavericks Wave picture. It's a nice picture, but I want MY picture. I keep >> the external drive attached even during reboot but the order of activities >> during boot up may not see it until after it has set the screen picture. I'd >> have thought that OSX would 'localise' the image selected in a C:/ folder >> separated from the iPhoto library at the point when the image is selected as >> the desktop image and it would be there for use at all times. >> >> Any clues how I can intervene on this default picture? >> >> Regards >> >> Pete >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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