Desktop Wallpaper Folder Disappears

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Desktop Wallpaper Folder Disappears

When I upgraded to Mountain Lion a while back, I can never keep the wallpaper personal folder in my preferences to stay. It worked perfectly in Lion, but breaks everytime I leave System Preferences.

To be clear, the default wallpapers from Apple and my Aperture libraries come up perfectly each time. I am talking about when I add a folder that I store my own wallpapers in. The folder disappears each time I close system preferences.

Any ideas why? Running 10.8.2, but had the problem since 10.8.

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), (Nehalem)

Posted on Jan 1, 2013 8:49 AM

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isolindo

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Jan 31, 2013 5:45 AM in response to jasond85

I have this problem since ML first came out. It's definitely a bug and there is nothing we can do until the bug is sorted out by Apple.

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jasond85 Author

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Mar 14, 2013 4:56 PM in response to isolindo

Looks like 10.8.3 fixed it.

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Mar 16, 2013 11:40 AM in response to jasond85

Thanks to all of you. I've been mystified. If I could add something to the conversation, I'm running Lion 10.7.5, not Mountain Lion. So, the bug isn't in Mountain Lion. It started for me 1-2 months ago and continues. I really appreciate your information.

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Mar 22, 2013 11:32 AM in response to jasond85

WORKAROUND:

Hey All. I too am having this issue on my Macbook Pro with a clean install of Mountain Lion. I did not back up from time machine or import settings from any other backup. So when I say clean, I mean clean. And yet, when I add a folder to Desktop settings, it disappears once I close out of preferences. The work around was to import my pictures into Iphoto and choose a picture from there in desktop preferences. That seems to be the workaround and it will keep the picture you chose in between bootups. Hope that helps for now...COME ON APPLE!!!!

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