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Oct 5, 2016 12:23 AM in response to Catsmanby Eau Rouge,My login picture is in the Macintosh HD/Library/Caches folder, as it has always been.
Check again.
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Oct 5, 2016 7:09 PM in response to Eau Rougeby Catsman,Sorry there is no login picture in that location in Sierra. Is in El Capitan but not Sierra.
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Oct 6, 2016 4:09 AM in response to Catsmanby paolocorno,In Sierra Login screen is located in /Library/CoreData/DesktopDefault.jpg that is a symbolic link to /Library/Desktop\ Pictures/Sierra.jpg You can overwrite it.
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Oct 6, 2016 4:31 AM in response to paolocornoby Catsman,Thanks but there is no folder called CoreData in my Library? Very strange. Or what is a symbolic link?
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Oct 6, 2016 4:39 AM in response to Catsmanby trevoz,It's not the ~/Library it is the /Library. They are two different places
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Oct 6, 2016 4:53 AM in response to trevozby Catsman,Thanks for your patience and help. I am getting closer but picture renamed as Sierra.jpg did not show up at login. Showed up on the desktop!
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Oct 6, 2016 5:07 AM in response to Catsmanby trevoz,I think you were given a bum steer
You need a .png file which is 1920×1080. It should be named com.apple.desktop.admin.png and it needs to be placed in the /Library/Caches/ folder. You might want to backup the existing file before you overwrite it.
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Oct 6, 2016 5:18 AM in response to trevozby Catsman,Thanks but that advice no longer applies in Sierra. It worked in El Capitan.The image is not in the folder you referred to.
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Oct 6, 2016 5:21 AM in response to Catsmanby trevoz,My Mac Mini begs to disagree with you:
trev@macmini5 [/Library/Caches] $ ll
total 552
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 0 Sep 22 13:25 .com.apple.updateEFIResources
-rw-r--r--@ 1 trev staff 564530 Sep 22 22:37 com.apple.desktop.admin.png
drwx--x--x 816 _iconservices admin 27744 Oct 6 09:52 com.apple.iconservices.store
I also checked the image and it is the one I get when I am at the login screen - blurred blue.
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Oct 6, 2016 5:29 AM in response to trevozby Catsman,Hi, I think i have been confusing Library folders or something but you were right. I found the file, replaced it and it all worked. Brilliant, thanks a lot.
I am still a little confused as I usually don't dig this deep, not since the days of MsDos and AppleDos!Some how my Alt key no longer shows the Library in the drop down in finder?
But hey you were right...and I appreciate it.
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Oct 6, 2016 5:56 AM in response to Catsmanby Eau Rouge,So I was right, you were looking in the wrong Library.
Just a note in Sierra whilst in finder in the Go menu clicking on the alt key no longer displays the Users Library.
If you want to display the Users Library permanently click on your Users/ Home icon in the Finder sidebar then click on View in finder and then Show Options, from there you check the Show Library Folder option.
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Oct 6, 2016 6:04 AM in response to Eau Rougeby Luis Sequeira1,Eau Rouge wrote:
Just a note in Sierra whilst in finder in the Go menu clicking on the alt key no longer displays the Users Library.
It does for me. And it is live, too. I can hold and release the option key with the menu open down and it changes, showing or not showing Library (between Home and Computer).