Wallpaper photo that I can't find

Hi. I have a photo as wallpaper on my desktop that I simply cannot find the file for anywhere on my hard drive or elsewhere. It's not in iPhoto, my Pictures folder, or anywhere else that I can discern in my home/user folder.

When I go to System Preferences -> Desktop, it isn't in any of the folders that it lets me chose from. The thing is, I really want to keep a decent res copy of this picture. I just can't locate it. It has to be somewhere in order for the OS to be accessing it as wallpaper, right?

Can anyone provide some insight?

Thanks in advance.

Matt

**running 10.6 Snow Leopard on a 2011 MacBook Pro

G'day and welcome to the forums.

Go into System Preferences > Desktop and Screensaver and poke around there. Can;t remember if Snow Leopard has the iPhoto gallery or if this came with a later operating system only'

Is it possible this was a pic online that you right-clicked, "Use as Desktop"'ed?
If so it's probably in the desktop cache and probably not recoverable.
Might try taking a screenshot with the Dock hidden and crop out the menubar in a gfx app.
Or, I could be totally wrong. I'm on a PC right now and don't remember if you even can do the use as desktop thing on a Mac.
Too lazy to start the Macbook to find out

harryb2448 said:

G'day and welcome to the forums.

Go into System Preferences > Desktop and Screensaver and poke around there. Can;t remember if Snow Leopard has the iPhoto gallery or if this came with a later operating system only'

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Thanks man. I looked in the files that the Desktop Wallpaper tool in System Preferences pulls from. It isn't there. Super weird.

cradom said:

Is it possible this was a pic online that you right-clicked, "Use as Desktop"'ed?
If so it's probably in the desktop cache and probably not recoverable.
Might try taking a screenshot with the Dock hidden and crop out the menubar in a gfx app.
Or, I could be totally wrong. I'm on a PC right now and don't remember if you even can do the use as desktop thing on a Mac.
Too lazy to start the Macbook to find out

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Thanks. This was def a picture that existed at some point, not just a right click. I was hoping I didn't have to resort to the screenshot thing, but I just might. Still hoping to find the original file...

I don't remember if this worked on Snow Leopard but in Yosemite if you Right click on a vacant area of the desktop and select Get Info the resulting window shows the path to the picture file.