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iMac G5 10.4.11 Tiger, desktop question

DrWho

DrWho

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Dec 11, 2008
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I have about 16076 pictures that are set to change about every 5 minutes on my background, because I love nature shots and all that. A while ago, I had a friend copy pictures from my "special" folder and he accidently put a few of them in my pictures folder and sometimes I get the images on my desktop (which is incredibly embarrassing)

Does a program exist that will be able to tell me the name of a picture that comes up as my background image, or can I use console or something like that

any help would be appreciated
 
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Passive101

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Dec 5, 2008
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oh wow :eek:

I can't help, but I would just go through the folder so you can view the pictures and weed the "special" ones out.
 
DrWho

DrWho

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Dec 11, 2008
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but with all of those pictures, it would take ages, plus it is only maybe 20 pictures tops, so the times I see them are very few but when I do I just try to turn off the screen so others do not see it
 
drichards

drichards

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Nov 30, 2008
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Try sorting your nature folder by date, size, or type... perhaps the special photos will rise to the top?
 
zmttoxics

zmttoxics

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May 20, 2008
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drichards said:
Try sorting your nature folder by date, size, or type... perhaps the special photos will rise to the top?
Click to expand...

Oh, there is a thought.

If you open Terminal.app, you can do the following:
cd ~/Pictures
ls -ltr

The -ltr will sort the list output in last modified format, so you can get the file names that were touched last. But I am not sure if it changes the date of a file when you move it.
 
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