REFERENCE old thread
Find path of the wallpaper image - Apple Community
previous to SONOMA you had a few options to locate the currently displayed desktop wallpaper. you can change the DOCK preference to enable the option to display the wallpaper path on the desktop
[defaults write com.apple.dock desktop-picture-show-debug-text -bool TRUE;killall Dock]
but this does not seem to be working anymore.
you were also able to run a AppleScript to locate and display the wallpaper file. this was done by querying the desktoppicture.db. but it does not appear that SONOMA utilizes this file anymore.
-- Usage: osascript find_wall_pic n
-- n = 1 or 2 (monitor ID)
on replace_chars(this_text, search_string, replacement_string)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the search_string
set the item_list to every text item of this_text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacement_string
set this_text to the item_list as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return this_text
end replace_chars
on run argv
if (count of argv) < 1 then
set screenId to 1
else
set screenId to item 1 of argv as integer
end if
if screenId ≤ 1 then
set screenId to 1 -- 1st monior index
else
set screenId to 18 -- 2nd monitor index
end if
set posixaliaspath to (do shell script "/usr/bin/sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\\ Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db \"select d1.value || '/' || d2.value from preferences pf1 join data d1 on pf1.data_id=d1.rowid join preferences pf2 on pf1.picture_id=pf2.picture_id join data d2 on pf2.data_id=d2.rowid where pf1.key=10 and pf2.key=16 and pf1.picture_id=" & screenId & "\"") as string
set homepath to (do shell script "echo $HOME")
-- replace "~" in the path to actual $HOME dir
set posixaliaspath to replace_chars(posixaliaspath, "~", homepath)
set aliaspath to (POSIX file posixaliaspath) as string
set posixpath to POSIX path of aliaspath
set imgfile to POSIX file posixpath
-- tell application "Finder" to reveal imgfile
tell application "Finder"
activate
reveal imgfile
end tell
end run
I am looking for a solution similar to the AppleScript above, that can be run on demand to locate the file active on the desktop at that time. any ideas??