| Tip 107 | Find Out Where Your Wallpaper Lives |
This is a quirky but potentially useful tip that will make your Mac tell you the file location of the wallpaper you’re currently using.
Open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal within the Utilities folder), and type the following:
| | defaults write com.apple.dock desktop-picture-show-debug-text -bool TRUE; |
| | killall Dock |
You should now find the filename and path of the wallpaper across the middle of the desktop—even when you access Mission Control and Dashboard.
To revert to having no filename and path displayed, open a Terminal window, and type the following:
| | defaults delete com.apple.dock desktop-picture-show-debug-text;killall ... |
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