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Trio of Friends Create Missing macOS Wallpaper of Monterey Landscape

ToomeyND said:
So for Big Sur, you are fine understanding that it is a region bigger than the city within, but for Monterey county, which has coastline that includes Lone Cypress, this is a non-starter. Got it. They didn't call it "Big Sur Region," but somehow you figured it out, maybe there's still time. Pat on the back to all the people in the thread that feel superior knowing that the tree is in Pebble Beach and that nullifies a user-submitted photo from the Monterey Peninsula, in the town of Pebble Beach, which is part of Monterey County.
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I edited my post above with a correction. It's not that I don't understand the purpose behind it. I just feel it's more about the spirit. No one who lives in the area pictures Lone Cypress when thinking of Monterey. That's the only point I'm really making.
 
bsamcash said:
I edited my post above with a correction. It's not that I don't understand the purpose behind it. I just feel it's more about the spirit. No one who lives in the area pictures Lone Cypress when thinking of Monterey. That's the only point I'm really making.
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You weren't the only one. I'm not gonna go through and edit them all, but I hear you. Additionally, this is probably why Apple didn't include photos at all this time. Nothing quite matched what they could offer with Catalina and Big Sur photo-wise in Monterey (city) itself, and if they used this, people would complain.
 
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JMacHack said:
Cmon Apple, you name your OS releases after places in California, one of the most varied and beautiful natural landscapes in the United States, and give us this abstract crap?

Old wallpapers were even Steves photographs! The least you could do is give us some eye candy!
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Steve's photographs??
 
Aggedor said:
Quoting myself, but I fixed it. The easiest thing to do is just drag the dynamic file into /Library/Desktop Pictures. Any .heic files in there are added to the dynamic desktop panel in System Preferences.
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Maybe everything hadn't propagated, but I then clicked on the + and selected the .hiec .
 
Ugh. I have tried everything here. no services option and neither Desktop Wallpapers folder allows me to drag a file into it.
 
All went well for the single image for a desktop, but when I try to download the dynamic image, my computer downloads "AABun_JC1-tz0f64M3iNX7HQa.html .....whatever that is.

What am I doing wrong here? Following the instructions doesn't work. I must be missing something?

Looks beautiful so far. Very nice. Apple should buy it from you, and offer it to all users. Anyway, I've now got the single static image, which looks nicer than the strange colors and shapes that come with Monterey.
 
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This is what Monterey actually looks like. Fog.

lone cypress-4.jpg
 
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CMoore515 said:
Welp, I don't have a Desktop Pictures folder in /Library and the one in /system/Library isn't writeable. What to do...
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Try going to system preference > Desktop & Screen Saver > on the left hand side, there should be three drop downs (Apple, Photos, Folders). Under Folders, you hopefully see Pictures and Desktop Pictures. Double-click Desktop Pictures. If it didn't exist, maybe it will through that route.
 
ToomeyND said:
Try going to system preference > Desktop & Screen Saver > on the left hand side, there should be three drop downs (Apple, Photos, Folders). Under Folders, you hopefully see Pictures and Desktop Pictures. Double-click Desktop Pictures. If it didn't exist, maybe it will through that route.
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It's there, but can't write to it.
 
Has anyone on a macOS system created since Big Sur been able to get a photo into the System/Library/Desktop Pictures directory?

My old Mac was first created on Yosemite, and thus I had a Library/Desktop Pictures I could edit where I had added some custom dynamic wallpapers alongside Apple's. I started from my scratch on Monterey with my new M1 Pro, and the System/Library/Desktop Pictures directory is completely read only. I even tried temporarily disabling SIP and mounting the directory to allow for writing to no avail.

I'll note this isn't really a problem since you can just set a dynamic wallpaper, and then use the services menu to set your custom wallpaper as the article discussed. But, it was cool having my wallpaper in that directory with the dropdown for Dynamic, Light, and Dark available.
 
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CMoore515 said:
It's there, but can't write to it.
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Create a folder under /Library name "Desktop Pictures". You'll have to enter admin password to make a folder there. and put it in there.. then it will show in system prefs under the dynamic (though you might have to quit and reopen system prefs to make it refresh to show up).
 

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ichickon said:
Create a folder under /Library name "Desktop Pictures". You'll have to enter admin password to make a folder there. and put it in there.. then it will show in system prefs under the dynamic (though you might have to quit and reopen system prefs to make it refresh to show up).
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Worked perfectly - thank you!
 
StealthRider said:
Worked perfectly - thank you!
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I tried this immediately on my machine yesterday, and it didn't work. But it just worked now...seriously though thanks so much. I'm way too obsessive about my wallpapers, and this was driving me insane the past 24 hours.
 
The link for the dynamic wallpaper goes to an empty dropbox 404 page.

nevermind, I got it, thanks!
 
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