Ok, I've got it sorted now thanks to your prompting. I went on a prowl over the settings and in the Finder Preferences pane, there were a number of items not clicked to Show. The House was one of a few not showing. Now it is and all good now.
Once again thanks for your help Ronni. This one can be 'archived away' now. Regards Pete > On 16 Aug 2014, at 5:37 pm, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Do you mean your Finder View? > Click on your Home icon (House named Peter or Pete) in the Dock - Open in > Finder. > Then in the Finder window - go to View > As Columns > You will then see your 'House' Peter in the left hand column and all the > folders in the column to the right - such as Desktop / Documents/ Movies / > Photos etc. > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > >> On 16 Aug 2014, at 5:13 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >> >> Hi Ronni, yes only just a couple of hours ago I did this can you believe. >> >> In my finger view I did have trouble finding the [user] folder. I think my >> finger view is wrong. Anyway I was able to get to the user folder to create >> the My Pictures folder by double clicking within the left panel of the >> Desktop and Screen saver panel. >> >> Thanks again for help with this. >> >> Pete. >> >> >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Ronda Brown >> Date:16/08/2014 16:18 (GMT+08:00) >> To: wamug@wamug.org.au >> Subject: Re: Desktop picture >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> Is this solved now? >> I'm trying to clear out a backlog of WAMUG emails I've replied to but have >> not received an update on the result. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >> >> >>> On 30 Jul 2014, at 9:46 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >>> >>> Oops, yes you're right, sorry. I got up at midnight last night to head off >>> to my work thinking it was 0530! I think I need a software update. >>> >>> I hope to revert with successful response sometime soon :) >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> Pete >>> >>>> On 30 Jul 2014, at 9:35 pm, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Peter, >>>> >>>> I thought my original instructions were easy to follow. >>>> >>>> Because you have the photo/s you want to use as your desktop image in an >>>> iPhoto library on an external drive... You need to create a new Folder, >>>> name it My Desktop Images and place the images you want to use as your >>>> Desktop in that folder... and place the folder in your Home > Pictures >>>> Folder on your Mac. >>>> >>>> Then follow my instructions below. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Ronni >>>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 30 Jul 2014, at 9:11 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Ronni, whilst I'm a bit delayed in responding, finally had a chance to >>>>> look at his tonight. Within the 'Pictures' folder I don't have a >>>>> sub-folder called My Desktop Images. All I have is 'Apple TV photo cache' >>>>> and iChat icons as folders. >>>>> >>>>> Maybe there is a folder elsewhere? >>>>> >>>>> 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>
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