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Please go to this path and find the sub directory contain file lockscreen.png at

/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Caches/Desktop Pictures

Open terminal and type this command below then press Enter

sudo chmod -R 777 /Volumes/Monterey HD/Library/Caches/Desktop Pictures

Finally, copy your picture and replace this lockscreen.png

Example, I will copy this lockscreen.png to this path below

/Volumes/Monterey HD/Library/Caches/Desktop Pictures/lockscreen.png

Now, reboot your macbook and congrat your picture is now here.

P.S: Please convert the picture to .png file and rename it to lockscreen.png

Many thanks:

This guy who is owned of this picture here: https://imgur.com/a/QTYcT0t

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