Hi all, Replying to myself here, but ...
We have found the solution to this so thought I'd share it. The problem was that the Desktop Pictures Preference Pane is attempting to find all the photos in iPhoto but some of those photos referenced the aforementioned network drive which no longer exists. The solution was to launch iPhoto and delete all references to shared photos on the non-existent drive and then the Desktop pictures Preferences were fine. That's all. Stephen On 2 Aug 2012, at 12:26, Stephen Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Any help much appreciated as this is driving my partner bonkers! He is > running Mountain Lion on a 2011 MacBook Air. The problem existed on 10.7 too > before updating to ML. > > - we had 2 USB disk drives connected to my iMac's Airport Extreme via a hub > - we believe that he had selected a folder on one of these drives to use as a > source of desktop pictures by adding it to the Folders section using the '+' > button. > - all was well. > > - we replaced all our USB drives with one new 2TB drive connected to the AE > and partitioned it into 3 volumes with the same names as the previous > physical disks. > - all is well everywhere ... except that now every time Chris opens his > System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver pane he sees the dialog below. > Clicking OK makes it reappear again and again and the only way to remove the > dialog is to close the Preference pane, but it returns the next time it's > opened. > > I've removed ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist but all that did > was reset his desktop pictures. The dialog still repeatedly reappears. > > Is there any way we can make it forget that it ever saw this drive? "Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity." - attributed to Marshall McLuhan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
