Always have issues importing new wallpapers

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Okay...I've been beating my head against the wall with this for as long as I've had Deskscapes.  I mainly use it to have a different wallpapre on each of my monitors, and tend to use ones that are relevant to the games I'm mainly playing at the time.  I have it set to look in my me/pictures/wallpapers folder (windows 7, btw) and it never, ever, ever shows all of the wallpapers that I have in there - and more often than not, it won't show the most recent ones that I've downloaded.   I can't seem to find any "refresh" button if it's just that it hasn't reloaded the folder or something...needless to say, it's frustrating.

 

 

Any suggestions?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Maybe there are a lot of wallpapers in that directory?  I don't have it installed at the moment so I can't play, but try moving a few - say 25 - wallpapers over to a different directory.  Unselect the folder you have it looking at now, and select the new one.  See if it responds better.  Also while you're in there, see if it's looking at more folders than the me/pictures/wallpapers, and if it is and you don't want it to, unselect them.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Yeah, I just have it looking at this one folder, and in it, there are 12-15 files.   For example, I DL'd a Mass Effect 3 wallpaper yesterday, and it's not available as a choice.  I then tried moving that picture to one of the default, included filefolders where other backgrounds are stored.  Nothing.  I took my original folder, copied everything over to a new folder on my OS drive, pointed DS at this folder instead, still didn't find it.  There's also a Fallout: New Vegas one that I put in a few months that it still doesn't see in the folder.  Everything in there is in .jpg format, so I know it's not a format issue.  Also, I've tried renaming files to see if it was something in the filename it didn't like.  Still no joy.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Damn....nothing?

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Set your filter to 1 star and higher and it may show then.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I've even tried it with no stars and I get nothing.  Just added two new wallpapers to the folder, still can't see them.

 

EDIT:  Well - I finally just moved everything to a different folder again and they finally showed up.  *shrugs*  At least it works now. Three monitors - I like being able to put different stuff on each of them, and this program is the best way to do it.