Stealth Files

[whoabucko]

Hi.
I would love some help from you Mac power-users.

I went into System Preferences / Desktop and Screen Savers in order to change the desktop picture. While viewing the available pictures, I saw dozens of {what I thought were} pictures that had previously been deleted from the computer. Those pictures were located in a folder call "Folder".
So I searched for that folder.... no luck.
So then I searched for some of the specific names of the pictures.... again no luck.
I even searched ".jpg" and scrolled though countless pictures..... still no luck.

I then decided to select one of those pictures for the desktop image. After doing so, it showed up on the desktop (so it must reside somewhere on this computer).
I then decided to click on the image in order to get it's properties (Get Info). Apparently that doesn't work on a Mac the same as it works on Windows, since the path was rather generic: /Users/myName.

Well.... the image is on the screen - even though I am sure that I had deleted it from the computer long ago - and yet I can't find that image anywhere on the computer.

Any ideas as to what's going on???.... or where it is hiding???

Thanks!

 

[simsaladimbamba]

What about employing the search method outlined here?

Best way to FULLY DELETE a program​

 

[GGJstudios]

The wallpaper files are located in /Library/Desktop Pictures
The default default image is in /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg

Your Library folders are hidden by default in Lion. To get to your /Library or /Users/yourusername/Library (also known as the ~/Library) folders in Lion:

• Launch Finder and click Go > Go to Folder and type: /Library or ~/Library
  
• Hold the Option key while clicking the Go menu item, which reveals your ~/Library folder in the menu.
  
• Make it permanently visible by entering the following command in Terminal, then press the Enter key:
  
  chflags nohidden ~/Library​
• 18 ways to view the ~/Library folder in Lion