Desktop wallpaper cycle through photo album pics

Posted:
in macOS edited January 2014
I'd like to set up my desktop background to rotate through pictures in a photo album that I set up in iPhoto. The reason I want to do this is for my desktop to cycle through my very best landscape vacation pictures.



For some reason, the option to cycle through pictures at a set interval is disabled for iPhoto albums, even though it's enabled for physical folders.



This is fine, but there's no way for me to convert an iPhoto album into a folder. It looks like the list of iPhoto albums is actually contained in an XML file. Furthermore, if I try to create a "folder" in iPhoto and drag and drop the photos into that folder, it won't let me.



Does anybody know a way around this?

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  • Reply 1 of 1
    I answered my own question:



    1) Open iPhoto

    2) Select the album you're interested in (don't select any of the individual pictures).

    3) Click the "Desktop" button in the taskbar below the pictures in the album.

    4) Select the "Change Picture" checkbox and choose your interval (ex 30 minutes).



    Seems to work... I guess I'll find out in 30 minutes.
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