Hi all!
Since I've installed 10.7, I can't set my user account picture to one of my own photos.
Each time I select my pict and click "set", it reverts to the original (that I want to change out of) after a few seconds.
The picture I want to use is in my Pictures folder.
The problem appears both in System Preferences > Users and Groups AND when editing my card through the Address Book.
Thank you.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
Tried to:
• Empty the ~/Library/Images/iChat Recent Pictures dir,
• Fix the disk permissions through the Disk Utility…
None have worked.
The System Preferences > User and Accounts panel is unlocked.
Seems that some other people have the same issue with 10.7 - http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1195260 .
Thank you!
I was having the same problelm.
It seems that user account picture (show at login) is synced with the picture that the user has in their address book. Which kind of makes sense. Try opening your address book and changing the picture there then use the same picture in your system preferences.
My problem is a bit different. I am able to change my account picture on System Preferences, but after a while (a few days) it gets reverted to the old picture, the one I used when turned on the machine for the first time.
Now, I managed to change the picture on the Address Book. I'll wait and see if the problem still occurs.
I am running Lion 10.7.2 on a MacBook Pro 13", late 2011.
Cheers.
I had the same problem.
Following Justin's advice and changing the picture in the address book solved it.
Thanks!
Yeah, it worked for me as well! I just forgot to mention here.
Thanks!
Hey, I had this problem too but the Address Book fix didn't work. In the end, I was updating some contacts on my iPhone anyway and noticed the rogue bad image was on there too, so I set a random photo as my User pic and next time I rebooted, lo and behold there it is on my login screen.
So I guess every time it was coming back, it was picking it up from iCloud. Bizarre.
I've had the same problem for SO long. I've looked here before, and I've changed the address book and account pictures and my iCloud account picture and address book in iCloud and in my phone. EVERYTHING.
Then today I realised that my problem was being caused by a little setting I'd enabled in the Facebook for iPhone app. Basically, you can set the app (through friends, then this icon in the top right of an arrow) to sync your contacts' photos with those from Facebook so that you have up to date pictures of them.
In those options, there's an option to 'replace existing photos' of contacts. It was turned on. BAD IDEA.
Since my iCloud account has the same name as my Facebook account, the Facebook app was replacing my contact card info on my iPhone to my Facebook photo (which had been my account photo for a short while). Of course, this was syncing to my iCloud account and finally to my computer, changing my account picture to my Facebook photo. Changing it back on iCloud etc was reverted to the Facebook photo every time that I opened the Facebook app, which caused it to sync the contacts' photos on my phone with the friends list ones.
That is why it is really variable how often the picture changes back, because it depends how long it's been since you last opened the Facebook app on your iPhone! Finally, I am SO GLAD that I managed to figure out the root of the problem. Turning off that 'replace existing photos' problem has fixed everything.
I hope that this solves all of you guys' problems too! 🙂
Account picture keeps reverting
