Deleting personal photos on a MacBook Air 11" that are stored in System preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver

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Deleting personal photos on a MacBook Air 11" that are stored in System preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver

Deleting personal photos on a MacBook Air 11" that are stored in System Preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver. I have been cleaning my MacBook to get it ready for a trade and have already removed all Photos from the "Photos" App. However, I have now noticed that I have a number of personal photos in the DeskTop & ScreenSaver App and I am unable to delete them by simply clicking on a photo and then hitting the minus button. I have seen from a 2010 post that there was a proposal to go into Mac HD - Open Library - Open Desktop Pictures - Select & Delete but in this particular area I can only see the standard Apple pics, no personal photos. Any ideas on how to remove these personal photos would be highly appreciated.

MacBook Air

Posted on Aug 7, 2018 2:08 AM

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léonie

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Aug 8, 2018 11:24 PM in response to Geoff Carter

You may have a second "Desktop" folder in your user library, not only in the system wide Library folder at the top level of your system drive. YOur user library is at the top level of your user home folder. It may be hidden. You can browse it if you hold down the options key ⌥ while opening the Finder's "Go" menu.

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LarryHN

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Aug 8, 2018 11:31 PM in response to Geoff Carter

the screen saver uses photos in the Photos library that is designated as the system library - delete it

this may be helpful - What to do before you sell or give away your Mac - Apple Support

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Geoff Carter Author

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Aug 8, 2018 11:26 PM in response to LarryHN

Thank you for taking the time to propose a way forward. I did not know about the "system" library. As it happens, an earlier post helped resolve my issue but I appreciate your help

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Geoff Carter Author

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Aug 8, 2018 11:27 PM in response to léonie

Thank you for the thought Léonie. As it happens an earlier post from another contributor put me on the right path but I appreciate you taking the time to support me

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Deleting personal photos on a MacBook Air 11" that are stored in System preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver

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