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Yes, you can select the image you added from the 'pictures' combo. You
can't go back with the '+' and get it from whatever directory you
originally got it from (pick an image NOT in ~/Pictures). I didn't think
the '+' function really added it to any particular list. You'd have
thought it would add it to the 'wallpapers' displayed. I never realized
it was getting added to 'Pictures Folder' because I have a lot of
pictures in ~/Pictures and didn't notice. So I'd go back to the original
directory and found I couldn't select it ('open' greyed out).

So it gets added to 'Pictures Folder', and is displayed along with
everything else in ~/Pictures. But it's not in your ~/Pictures folder -
it's been copied to ~/.cache/gnome-control-center/backgrounds with a
weird name. The dialog box links that copy into the list that it offers
under 'Pictures Folder'. It shows up with the weird name from the cache,
which is unfortunate.

I think it would make more sense to add it to Wallpapers, with its
original name. The whole process seems only half thought-out.

BTW, this issue is present in Precise as well.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/899647

Title:
  When I try to change backgrounds to a previously selected background
  it won't let me open it.

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Found in 11.10 Oneiric 64 bit.
  I changed my background to one of the stock backgrounds, when I went to change back to my normal background in my ~/Pictures directory it was grayed out and it would not let me open it. I had to make a copy of the file with a different name to open it.

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