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Getting the Current Desktop Background in OS X

I have a lot of desktop backgrounds (a.k.a. “wallpapers”) on my Mac.  I keep them all in one folder and set them to change every 15 minutes in random order (currently, this folder has 1,329 backgrounds in it).  Every once in a while I see a background that I either love and want to make it the permanent background for a few days, or hate and want to delete it.  The problem is there’s no quick and easy way in OS X to find out the exact path and file name of the currently used background, so browsing through all those files is a major time waster

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