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The System Preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver/Pictures folder is now empty. Still, I could not fool OS X, as the photos still were in the Desktop & Screen Saver side pane.ДЇinally, I moved the offending photos completely off the computer by deleting them from the desktop, emptying the trash and restarting the computer.

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Next, thinking I was a genius, I re-named the moved photos & restarted the Mac again. I tried to trick OS X by moving the photos that are in System Preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver/Pictures from the MacIntosh SSD/ Pictures folder to the desktop & restarting the Mac, but that didn't eliminate them from the pane. (That's the one with only three of my photos in the User Name/Pictures folder & had each in twice.) They aren't deletable from within Desktop & Screen Saver. The MacIntosh SSD/Library/Desktop Pictures folder didn't have the Pictures folder that is goofed up in my System Preferences/Desktop & Screen Saver side pane. Problem Two- Only Three Picture Folder Photos Available Solved - Rather Clunkily, But Solved I've never found any reference to PRAM controlling things that are handled by a plist, so maybe this was simply a coincidence or, perhaps, M.C.S. I did a PRAM reset and now the chosen image has stayed chosen for several restarts. Problem One- Desktop Image Reverting To Default El Capitan Photo Solved! Now I can spend countless (otherwise productive) hours goofing around with desktop photos.

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I'd been to some of the links and sub links in my search for a solution, but never saw the ones with the techniques for making your own images- or the ones with so many free images. Thanks Patrick for the links & for your advice. (PS And that was back in the pre OSX days when one could move the real Trashcan anywhere on the desktop. Not forgetting that some nice images do not work well as a desktop image.Дo I dare say a large small squares checkerboard design, or a really dirty trick some guy I know created a desktop image of about 500 Trashcans and dropped it into an arrogant know-it-alls desktop images folder.

Then in your Desktop &Screensaver Pref pane, click the '+' and select that new folder that's on your Desktop.ДЄll the photos/images in that folder should be available for you to use and readily available to add any new ones you might want to use. If nothing else, you should be able to create a folder i.e.: My Desktop Images and copy any or all the images you want to use into it. I would strongly suggest that you DO NOT go mucking about and deleting files from places you shouldn't be in and/or don't understand how things work properly. Thanks All for helping me out with this unusual glitch.

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I found some good threads here at and, but none of those solutions or linked articles are working for my troubles.ДЄ) Get all the pictures in the Hard Drive / Users / User Name / Pictures folder back on the System Preferences Desktop & Screen Saver list?Д«) How to get the picture that I choose to stay chosen? Internet search results speak of a preference file, but the ones mentioned don't exist on my OS X version (10.11.6) I thought I'd get brave & look for a preference file to delete & start over, but I could not find one for desktop. The previously chosen photo will be gone from the System Preferences Desktop & Screen Saver - Pictures group of three photos after the restart. But, after restarting the computer, the newly chosen photo will be replaced by the El Capitan default photo.

I also tried to remove the individual 3 photos & their copies, but no luck there, either.Д«) I can navigate to a photo by clicking the (+) button and selecting a single photo (from the Finder type pop up window) as the desktop picture. I tried to highlight the Pictures folder in System Preferences to remove it & start over, but the (-) button is grey & can't be chosen. Interestingly, none of the three that are there now were ever used as the desktop photo. There used to be all the photos in the Pictures folder available in the Desktop & Screen Saver left pane. (Actually, from sub-folders in that parent folder) In Finder, there are a hundred or so photos in the Hard Drive / Users / User Name / Pictures folder. They are random photos from my Hard Drive / Users / User Name / Pictures folder. Trying to fix this brought me to two problems:ДЄ) When I go to System Preferences - Desktop & Screen Saver to change the picture, the 'Pictures' folder in the Desktop & Screen Saver window only has three photos in it.

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This new glitch is one I could not fix on my own.ДЄpple sent a security update this morning and after the update, my desktop picture reverted back to the El Capitan default picture of the mountain.

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