Now, while leaving this window open, open a Terminal window and run the following: sudo opensnoop | grep -v '/.vol' | grep 'System Pref'Įnter your password, and wait. Open System Preferences » Desktop & Screen Saver » Screen Saver and select the folder you want to locate to see a preview. The path, of course, is /Users/danielbeck/Pictures. On my system, it looks like this: file:///Users/danielbeck/Pictures/

Now the return value (much binary data) is filtered for a file URL.

This will first get the most recent .*.plist file that does not contain slideshow in its name and read its contents: the relevant entry of the property list file is moduleDict:fileRef. Now run the following command in Terminal: /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print moduleDict:fileRef' $( ls -t ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.*.plist | grep -v slideshow | head -n1 ) | grep -oaE 'file://]+/' The location is stored in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.*.plist, * being a UUID. Monitor file system accesses while images from that folder are displayed.Decode the encoded data specifying where on the file system the folder is located.If that is not enough to locate it, you have two options:

The name of the folder is given in System Preferences » Desktop & Screen Saver » Screen Saver.

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