Lion resets my wallpaper to default "galaxy" pic after every restart

Yes, just posted a question about same issue...

Could you check if apps you remove from dock don't come back after reboot?

jmc

I am also having this issue, every time I restart, its back to the galaxy. Dont seem to be having problems with apps reappearing in the dock though...

I thought the problem was the properties files holding the settings could not be written or something like that.

I've been playing for a while with the properties files holding settings for "dock" & "desktop"

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist holding desktop settings

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist holding dock settings

both seem to reflect correctly changes I make on background picture, and remove Facetime from dock

then, I log off & on again... desktop displays galaxy image, and facetime icon is back on dock....

Anybody with a fresh idea?

Here is how I fixed. I assumed that the issue is iPhoto takes to long to start or "mount" (as in my case using disk utility).

I dragged the picture I wanted to use from the iPhoto event to the desktop, renamed it and dragged it into a shared folder in finder.

Then I selected that picture using the + icon under System Preferences>Desktop and Screensavers.

Tried it a few times and it works after every restart.

Hi All,

I think I got the answer!!!!

Even though Lion displays all available pictures within "/Library/Desktop Pictures" folder and subfolders. It seems it can only handle pictures at first level... ie not in any sub-folders...

To solve the problem, before a real fix, just copy all the pictures you want from their initial folder to the main "/Library/Desktop Pictures" folder

Voilà

ps : I'm still having problem with Dock and "Reopening windows option" not saved correctly...

I believe it is because Lion uses a different wallpaper setting for each Desktop in Mission Control. It looks like the primary desktop is smart enough to carry the changes over between desktops. For the secondary desktop, however, I had to drag around the System Prefs pane between Desktops and apply the settings.

I have the same problem, plus one or two others since installing Lion, like in some applications it doesn't remember the document I was in before and I have to find it each time.

My question is that I also have my pictures in IPhoto but when I tried to copy them I can't find a folder called /Library/Desktop Pictures. I also cannot see where Apple puts the default wallpapers as I thought I could put mine there as well.

I Solved this problem by creating a folder in my documents, I guess you *could* call it anything you want however I called it "desk" and placed an image in there. So far everytime I restart my mac it hasn't defaulted back.

Many thanks for the discussio,I've taken the 'copy file' rout to the library and it sems to work ok

Nothing yet has fixed this for me.

I don't use iPhoto for this but instead have had a folder on an external hard drive for years where I store wallpapers.

I tried copying them to the /Library/Desktop Pictures/ folder on the internal hard drive to see if it has anything to do with the external HD mounting too late, but it's not working either. Sometimes my wallpaper is displayed after booting, sometimes it's the default galaxy wallpaper. I've since moved the folder back to the external hard drive.

I tried setting a wallpaper rotation so that OS X changes to my selected wallpaper folder after 15 minutes, but that doesn't work either: When the galaxy wallpaper is displayed on start-up, it stays like that, ignoring my settings in the system preferences.

operation can't be completed because of an unexpected error

every time i go to paste the images (.jpg) in the /Library/Desktop Pictures/ folder, i get the above message