I do a lot of photography and view many of the images as desktop wallpaper, set to change every minute. In Ventura and earlier, the wallpaper would pick up where it had been in the cycle of 1500+ images when I shut down the Mac. Sonoma can’t seem to do that: it starts at the beginning every time I boot up. This means I see maybe 5% of the images I have set up as desktop images. Is there a secret setting somewhere that makes Wallpaper work the way it should?
It sounds as if you’re not checking the “Randomly” checkbox in the Shuffle section of your Wallpaper settings. Is there some reason you perfer your wallpaper to always display in file order?
I do prefer to view them in some order. Because of the file names, they work out to be chronologically ordered, within camera models. I had to come up with a file naming system when I started accumulating dSLR images, so every image has a prefix for the camera model and within camera groups they appear chronologically. I don’t understand why the wallpaper settings were changed in Sonoma: there was nothing wrong with the way they worked before.
I’m only using Sonoma to try to get comfortable with couple of applications, and petty annoyances reduce my interest in doing that.
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