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MacbookPro wallpaper - why I cant see any pics in system preferrences

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does anyone have any idea why when I try to change wallpaper in system preferences I cant see any of my pics? I have bunch of high quality wallpapers but system cant see them. I can change wallpaper from finder no issues but I would like to swap all the pics in the folder and this option is only available in system preferences. almost none of my pics in the library are not shown there. is there a size / res restriction or what?


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Posted on Dec 26, 2019 4:56 AM

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Posted on Dec 26, 2019 8:11 AM

I don't think it's a size restriction/res restriction. On my Mac, wallpapers can be found in System prefs, then Desktop, then the Apple Folder, then Desktop pictures, etc or in users>>yourname>>pictures. I don't think it's setup to read your library (I'm guessing you're talking about iPhoto or Photos library). If you click on the plus button at the bottom, you can add a folder for it to check for pictures to display as wallpaper....


You used to be able to drag 'n' drop the picture you wanted onto the desktop picture, but I don't know if you can still do that, and if you have a bunch of 'em, it gets tedious changing them one at a time by hand


well, good luck to you


john b

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Dec 26, 2019 8:11 AM in response to Greggerly

I don't think it's a size restriction/res restriction. On my Mac, wallpapers can be found in System prefs, then Desktop, then the Apple Folder, then Desktop pictures, etc or in users>>yourname>>pictures. I don't think it's setup to read your library (I'm guessing you're talking about iPhoto or Photos library). If you click on the plus button at the bottom, you can add a folder for it to check for pictures to display as wallpaper....


You used to be able to drag 'n' drop the picture you wanted onto the desktop picture, but I don't know if you can still do that, and if you have a bunch of 'em, it gets tedious changing them one at a time by hand


well, good luck to you


john b

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