Some questions:
Q #1: Where are you placing your own Desktop Pictures?
Q #2: What do you mean by
they won’t work on the new one
What format are you talking about as "they"?
Q #3: Are you saying you cannot view/display a ".heic" image?
although desktop JPEG’s work fine
Q #4: Are "Desktop" and "desktop" two different things
There are two different "Desktop Pictures" directories:
- BootDrive(WhateverItMightBeNamed)/System/Library/Desktop Pictures. That is the directory where the normally installed DP are. They will probably be .heic, the format Apple started using in iOS and now in OSX.
- The directory you probably have used for your own DP's may be:
BootDrive(WhateverItMightBeNamed)/Library/Desktop Pictures
That's where most of mine are and they are mostly .jpeg
If, for some reason, you want to convert a .heic to something else, Apple provides
Preview. You can "Export..." to any of the following formats: JPEG, JPEG-2000, OpenEXR, PDF, PNG and TIFF. Any of those can also be "Export[ed]..." as HEIC.
Preview is an often over-looked Apple app.
It can do quite a lot of actual image
manipulation and never even
think about a PDF!