Where is Wallpaper photo stored on the iphone

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Where is Wallpaper photo stored on the iphone

I had a favorite photo that I use as my iPhone's Wallpaper, and it was originally on my Mini but it got deleted from there. I now want to copy it from my iPhone to the Mini, but I can't find it on the iPhone. Its not in my Photos. Which file folder is it in, etc. Thanks.

Mac Mini and MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Feb 12, 2009 11:33 AM

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Feb 12, 2009 1:10 PM in response to Er1c4

I found it on the iPhone and it was easy!! Didn't have to do all that technical stuff either. The thread said the file is called Lockbackground.jpg. I have iPhoneBrowser that let's you search the phone, and if you use that just click on the User folder, and then Library sub-folder and its right there.

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Er1c4

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Feb 12, 2009 12:16 PM in response to Stephen73

I'm having the same problem. I have a great picture set as my wallpaper, that I accidentally deleted from my camera roll (so now it only exists as my wallpaper). Is there any way that I can access it, and resave it as a picture?

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Feb 12, 2009 12:18 PM in response to Stephen73

It's not in an accessible directory on the phone. It can be extracted from the backup that iTunes stores on your computer, but doing so is not trivial.

See this thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1706033

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Mar 8, 2009 7:13 PM in response to Stephen73

Hey, Stephen I looked for the app you referred to as iPhoneBrowser and can't find it. Did you get it at iTunes? thx

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Er1c4

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Feb 12, 2009 12:28 PM in response to neuroanatomist

bah. That seems a bit over my head, and it sounds like the pic will be fairly low res in the end anyway. I did use the screenshot capability of the phone to snag a copy of the wallpaper that way, so at least I have the picture in some (tiny) format. Thanks for your help!

Erica

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Shubes

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Mar 8, 2009 6:16 PM in response to Stephen73

Well, I don't know that much about iPods or iPhones (I've only had mine since Christmas) but just fooling around, I went to My Computer (Windows XP) and double-clicked on the Apple iPod device.

Surprisingly, it didn't find any of those so-called "hidden folders", but what it DID show was my wallpaper images, so I simply copied them onto my hard drive.

No special software, no hacks...just Windows Explorer.

Almost too simple. I must have done something wrong...

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