Help find my previous background image

I’ve changed my desktop background, and the previous image has disappeared. I don’t know where it is. Can you tell me if it’s possible to recover that image that I had previously selected from some screenshots I took? thanks and happy sunday
ps i am a newbie lol

Welcome to :fedora: ! @linoa !
You could check for the image in /Pictures/Screenshots and right click on it then select set as background.

If you are using gnome you should be able to recover it by using the
settings → appearance panel then the +Add Picture button opens a file search/select panel to pick the file.

You will need to know the actual file name and the path to it, or be able to search for it

Thank you, thank you;
Here’s what happened: I looked in the appearance settings and saw that there were new images that Fedora had added as backgrounds, but it also seemed that all the previous ones were gone. I tried setting one that I liked, but then I couldn’t find the one I had previously installed. I can’t find it in any of the folders like screenshots, downloads, images, or documents, but I believe it must be somewhere in a system folder that I’m not familiar with since I’m new to this; I just left Mac and its new MDMs.

It should be under

You may need to show hidden files to see it.
Ctrl + h toggles this in Files.

thank you it was a nice experience to practice that search but the folder is empty

got this;
In the path //.cache/thumbnails/large, I found a small thumbnail that allowed me to conduct a search. It turns out to be the image of Mandelburner2, a software from Flathub for generating free and open-source 3D fractals. However, I’m still not sure what happened to the image that served as my desktop background.

muchas gracias // thx all

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