Wallpaper reverting on macOS Ventura

On my Macbook recently updated to Ventura, the "Wallpaper" defaults every time I restart the machine. this is quite frustrating.

My mistake was upgrading to Ventura--too many hassles and lost productivity. I'm adding jpeg photos

from my computer--I don't store anything on the cloud that I know of.I back up my computer to a La Cie hard drive.

glorious_bunny wrote:

• I recently updated to macOS Ventura and I am trying to set a custom wallpaper from a JPEG photo. I have tried the following approaches:

Through Finder: right-clicked on a photo and chose 'Set as Desktop Picture'

Through System Settings: selected a photo from my Downloads folder (auto-rotate is not• turned on)

Through System settings: selected a photo from my iCloud photo library (auto-rotate is not• turned on)

In each case, my Mac reverts to a default photo within a matter of minutes.

The source photo was not changed (i.e., it was not deleted or edited from my local files or from the iCloud photo library).

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Is this is one particular photo or all photos you have tried...?

if no resolve—Try a SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies.

I just resolved this issue over text with the Apple Support app. The photo you're using has to be saved locally on your computer not pulled from the cloud. Once I saved my pic to the desktop and used that it was retained through a restart.

Did you try leroydouglas's suggestion?

Running my MacBook Pro M1 in "Safe Mode" is not a viable solution. I run two very intensive programs and need the unit to run natively.

Just boot into Safe Mode to do the fixing it does then reboot normally and test.