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I don't have one, either.

I suspect it gets formed, when we use the Photos App to set the desktop.

I have always used the PrefPane.

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Yes if you don’t use Photos to set the wallpapers, then you don’t have it.

That explains it.

Also, the path that I have is as follows.

     ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Photos/Data

Mine's a killer 55 MB.

Correct, mine is few MB (now). Just don't set the wallpapers via Photos in the future, or remember to clean this folder.

Post should probably be titled "macOS Photos keeps a huge wallpapers cache", since it's not actually tied to the macOS wallpaper mechanism.

Yes maybe but Photos only creates a copy of the file/image in order to be used from macOS (due to Sandboxing). So it's more a macOS connected to Photos feature than Photos alone.

...in the end, it's just a mess.

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