Comments on: Desktoptopia review: Free, ever-changing desktop backgrounds

By: hamad

hamad — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:17:58 +0000

thanks matt. that’s a great tip. i was also looking for the same.

By: iBook

iBook — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:15:51 +0000

Good Job! I Have Been Trying to Get Rid of That Flims Catagory For EVER!!1 Thanks a Bunch Matt!!!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:52:36 +0000

Nice work matt!

By: matt

matt — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:07:29 +0000

Just found out how to remove the Films Feed (which suck) go into your home folder, and into library >application support >desktoptopia. Create a copy backup of the backgrounds file. Then open it. hit apple+f to get the search open and search for films. when you find it change 2 lines above it from:

1
to
0

(i turned the 1 to a 0) This makes it not a priority and then you can uncheck it.
You might have to quit desktoptopia first.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:49:30 +0000

Ah, the old hidden folder trick! Thanks murf. I *knew* they had to be somewhere. Now why on earth would they want to put the images in a hidden folder?

You’re right - the image filenames are much more readable.

Thanks for the great tip. And I know, it should probably be “desktop”, or “desktop background”

By: murf

murf — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:10:49 +0000

You’ll find Desktoptopia’s image cache at ~/Library/Application Support/Desktoptopia/.Backgrounds/

Since folders that have a period at the start of their name are hidden in the finder you’ll have to type Command + Shift + G in the Finder to bring up the “Go to Folder” dialogue. Paste in the path from above and you’ll see all the images.

Here is another benefit of Destoptopia - even though this folder is hidden, the pictures are saved with human-readable names. Desklikr’s images use serialized names that don’t clue you in to the content of the picture (probably Flickr’s doing).

Finally, as a Mac user this has to be said, wallpaper is for walls… your new found passion is for desktops