MacOS – Where does Screensaver store images

filesystemmacosscreensaversnow leopard

I have only used iPhoto a couple of times by accident (preferring one of the many alternatives). Each time, I carefully removed those images from iPhoto to the iPhoto trashcan and then emptied the iPhoto trash. Consequently, all the iPhoto sections appear empty:

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But when I look at the screensaver, pictures show up when one of the iPhoto directories is selected (the directories can't be deleted in any way I know).

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I'm assuming that the images were copied into a screensaver cache (or maybe a link was created). Where are these screen saver images stored?

BTW, I'm still running Snow Leopard on a beautiful 4gig iMac. Thanks!

Best Answer

After scrounging around in plist files (thank you find and grep!), I found the beginnings of an answer, but I'm still a little confused.

It seems that those pesky images have been lingering around (renamed, of course) in the following directory: ~/Pictures/

Deleted them, and now when selecting any of the iPhoto portions of Screensaver, I get the appropriate error message: The selected source contains no pictures. Please choose a new source...

-Yeah, that's the ticket!

I hope others will have more details, so I'll wait a couple of days before accepting an answer.

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