Desktop Pictures reverts after restart

[BrotherJerome]

In System Preferences/Desktop, I choose "Change Picture" and "Random Order". But every time I restart, it reverts to the default Sierra picture. Any ideas on how I can get my preferences to stick?

 

[ajay96]

In System Preferences/Desktop, I choose "Change Picture" and "Random Order". But every time I restart, it reverts to the default Sierra picture. Any ideas on how I can get my preferences to stick?

I'm curious, do you store your pictures on an external drive?

That's what I do, and mine also resets to the default image after restarting.

 

[fisherking]

try putting an alias of the folder that has your pictures in the Pictures folder in your home folder, then go to system preferences, and point to the alias there...

 

[BrotherJerome]

I'm curious, do you store your pictures on an external drive?

That's what I do, and mine also resets to the default image after restarting.

Nope. Just the normal Library/Desktop Pictures folder.

 

[DHagan4755]

Nope. Just the normal Library/Desktop Pictures folder.

Create another user in System Preferences & see if the new user account has the same issue.

 

[Sharky II]

I have the same issue, but I'm running EL Capitan still.

If you untick 'different displays have separate spaces', it seems to fix the issue (for me at least).

But, I need separate spaces.

I've also seen it suggested to delete Finder preferences, so you could give that a go, however it didn't work for me.

 

[BLUEDOG314]

try deleting ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db