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Authored by: eno on Mar 09, '03 10:07:27PM

... where (and how) is the information about a Finder window's background image stored?

I would like to be able to change images from the command line, but I can find no way to do it.



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Authored by: noworryz on Mar 09, '03 11:52:58PM

A custom directory view's picture location is kept in the .DS_Store file in the directory's parent directory. As of March 2003, there are no tools to modify this file and no Applescript support for this option. The file format is Apple proprietary.

For the "all windows" default view, the information is in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. You could perhaps write a program to send the Finder a "Quit" Apple event, write this file, then re-start the Finder. (The file is in XML format.) It would be a lot of work and the result would be very intrusive to someone using the machine.

Probably your best option is to wait for better Finder Applescript support.



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