Accidentally deleted /Library/CoreServices folder

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I did something stupid,

Playing around with my computer I wanted to change the login background and used this command in terminal:

cd /System/Library/CoreServices
sudo mv DefaultDesktop.jpg DefaultDesktop_org.jpg
sudo cp /Path/to/picture/you/want/to/use/image.jpg DefaultDesktop.jpg

I copied and pasted it without reading the command.

I dragged the image I wanted to replace it with, but when I went to go check it out, the background was blank or just blue. Any suggestions. I have leopard, and I left my upgrade disk at college, any ideas?


Thanks in advance for any help!
 
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if that's all you did you shouldn't have deleted anything. It should have given you an error saying that /Path/to/picture/you/want/to/use/image.jpg DefaultDesktop.jpg didn't exist.

If you do

cd /System/Library/CoreServices
sudo cp -p DefaultDesktop_org.jpg DefaultDesktop.jpg

It'd be back to where it was.. or you chould just use the cp to copy the file you want to use to the /System/Library/CoreServices.
 

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