Cleaned up Photos from Picture folder and now Random Wallpaper now longer works with Photo app

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Cleaned up Photos from Picture folder and now Random Wallpaper now longer works with Photo app

I completed moving all my photos to the Photo app today and deleted the sub-directories I had in the Pictures folder. The Pictures folder still exists and holds the Photo app database.

Now however, the 1 minute random selection of wallpaper is no longer working at all. It starts with a Sonoma wallpaper and never changes, even when I select ALL Photos, Random and 1 Minute. Nothing changes anymore. I tried different settings. If I select a picture from the Photo app it shows it, but will no longer randomly rotate photos as wall paper.

I would appreciate any advice, recommendations, ideas.

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.6

Posted on Aug 30, 2024 10:18 PM

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Sep 6, 2024 8:15 AM in response to JamesEugene

JamesEugene wrote: ... They told me to wait for the next update.

What I do is make a Wallpaper folder in the Pictures folder and point the wallpaper settings to it with "Add Photos>Choose." In Photos, I use File>Export>Export nn Photos, and set the size

in the export dialog to something that works on my screen. My MacBookPro's screen is 3024 x 1964 pixels, and it seems to me that even a height of 491 pixels, 1/4 size) looks OK as a background, but an advantage is that you can play around with that. So I can have the wallpaper I want with fairly small files. I do the same with Screensaver images.

Maybe Sonoma will make this superfluous.

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Sep 1, 2024 8:42 AM in response to JamesEugene

According to Apple Support this is a new Sonoma bug that was first reported 3 weeks ago. They told me to wait for the next update. Guessing it is a bug in 14.6.1

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Cleaned up Photos from Picture folder and now Random Wallpaper now longer works with Photo app

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