I moved that file out of the prefs folder, and when I selected a new picture, the little preview picture changed, a new file was created and later changed date when I selected a new picture and the picture on the desktop didn't change. Repair Permissions didn't help. Paul Moortgat On 28 Sep 2006, at 00:32, Thomas Noel wrote: > > > On Sep 27, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > >> Suddenly I can't change the desktop picture anymore. I select one >> in the system prefs and it will not change. >> Can it have something to do with the latest Security update I did >> yesterday? I use 10.4.7 and it worked a few days ago. >> >> Paul Moortgat >> _______________________________________________ > > Hasn't become a problem for me. I would suspect a corrupted > preference file in ~/Library/Preferences. Login as a different user > (you do have a pristine emergency account available, right?) and > see if the Desktop changes. If so, delete the file (I think this is > the right one) "com.apple.desktop.plist" and start over. >