Why do't you just establish your personal color files in a personal folder, and 
set the Desktop preference to use that folder instead of the system solid 
colors folder? If you want the system ones to appear too, it's a lot easier 
just to copy the system color files into your own folder rather than the other 
way around.

> On Jan 15, 2022, at 4:45 AM, Chris Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I have a set of solid colours that I use for screen backgrounds.  In the past 
> when transferring to a new machine it was simple to move them over and place 
> them in the Library/Desktop Pictures/Solid Colors folder.
> 
> Probably for security reasons this appears to no longer be possible as that 
> folder has been moved to System/library/Desktop Pictures/Solid Colors   There 
> may be two possible options:
> 
> 1.  Use command line and (probably) sudo to move them.  Although I have used 
> CLI I’m not familiar with the commands sufficiently to be sure of what I am 
> doing unless someone could give me a copy/paster terminal command to move the 
> individual files.
> 
> 2.  To use the custom color section in System Prefs.  To do this I need to 
> know the RGB values of the current solid colours of the .png files and to be 
> able to use the standard colour picker to match them in the Monterey system 
> prefs. Unfortunately I can’t see any way of getting the colour picker to 
> display the RGB values for any of the files.  
> 
> Can anyone offer any help/ideas?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Chris
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