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Use an AppleScript to force a desktop picture change
Authored by: JimMueller on Mon, Jun 16 2008 at 10:14AM PDT

This reminds me of a discussion here several years ago about a script to display the filename of the current desktop. AFAIR, it was never made to reliably work.
I am not saying that this script's code reminds me of the previous one.
I'm just saying that this reminds me to try to resurrect that old discussion - especially since our newer, burlier hardware lets us stuff thousands of images in our "random desktops" folder and frequently my wife and I look at each other's screens and ask each other "Oooh! I haven't seen that - is it new? What is it?" and we have to wade through our respective folders and trade files. Yes, I know it is a problem of our own making...