Use Snow Leopard desktop picture in El Capitan?

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Use Snow Leopard desktop picture in El Capitan?

Hello, I've got El Capitan on my computer (I'm not mad for it, but it does allow me to do things I couldn't do with Snow Leopard), and I'm getting used to it and to Waterfox, LibreOffice and others, along with the OS and strangely, limitations on the print options.

But that's not what I'm after. Though I know it's a little kooky, fussy and trivial, I'd love to know whether there is some way I could use my old desktop picture (it's the Japanese painting of a tsunami) instead of the ones offered through El Capitan. I've found my desired image as a JPEG file, but I don't know whether I can import it into the system, if so, how to do it and whether it can be made to work.

I can live with the pictures offered, or I could go into my photos and choose a picture, but I really loved the old desktop picture. It was classy and not so dark or distracting that it got in the way. If I could use it again, it would please me very much.

I know this isn't really a problem, so I'll understand ff nobody wants to answer me. Thanks, regardless.

jenny

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Apple Mail

Posted on Jul 27, 2017 4:59 PM

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Answer 1

dialabrain

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Jul 27, 2017 7:18 PM in response to jennywren1420

I gather you meant this one…

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Answer 2

dialabrain

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Jul 27, 2017 5:13 PM in response to jennywren1420

Not sure which pic you are referring to but if you have the jpeg you can just copy it to your Pictures folder, then open System Preferences > Desktop & Screensaver, click on the plus symbol and navigate to the picture to add it.

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Answer 3

Jul 27, 2017 7:07 PM in response to dialabrain

That is indeed the one. I've tried various ways of getting it onto the screen, though and got, at one point, something that said that the image was being saved. It didn't finish, though, if it actually even got started.

Thanks so much for your reply.

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Answer 4

Jul 27, 2017 7:24 PM in response to Rysz

It didn't work exactly this way, but I did manage to get almost all the way there by clicking on something that seemed bound to make the image my desktop picture. I said it was saving the image and showed it as a full version on the screen, but it never finished.

Well, no mind. I can try again or just forget it. In the larger scheme of things and of life, this is pretty trivial. It just was a nice idea.

Thanks again.

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Answer 5

Jul 27, 2017 7:27 PM in response to dialabrain

I'm afraid I flunked this lesson. I couldn't get it copied to Pictures, I'm afraid. But never mind. I'll either get the Waves image onto my desktop or I won't. In the larger scheme of things in life, this is extremely unimportant.

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Rysz

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Jul 27, 2017 7:11 PM in response to jennywren1420

Right-click on the image > select Services from the pop-down menu > select Set Desktop Picture > let go.

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Answer 7

Eric Root

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Jul 28, 2017 5:40 PM in response to jennywren1420

Can you copy the picture to your hard drive level Library/Desktop Pictures folder? That should make it an option in System Preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver/Desktop.

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