Howard Brazee

Q: Screen Saver reverts to National Geographic

Several times lately (Yosemite only???), I have discovered my screen saver has reset itself to show National Geographic photos.    And they are usually set to show both my iMac and my second monitor the same photos.

 

It's easy enough to set back to my desired iPhoto library.   But I wonder what causes it to be reset?

 

What I haven't figured out is what to do when both monitors are displaying the same photos.   Eventually that problem fixes itself.    Nor what to do when it starts with the same photos in the same order.  (I have a hot corner, and have been testing after I reset it to use my iPhoto library, and each time I turn it on, I get the same photo sequence as before - on both monitors).

 

I just tried it again - the third time since I started this message - and it's back to National Geographic.

 

I set it back, this time telling it to shuffle, and both monitors showed different photos as desired.    I should have checked that earlier.    But why doesn't my setting stay?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Nov 3, 2014 5:12 PM

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  • by TomBell,

    TomBell TomBell Dec 5, 2014 2:50 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Dec 5, 2014 2:50 PM in response to Linc Davis

    as with rest of you, I tried this, it worked for a few minutes, and then reverted again. One bit I wanted to add is I deleted the com.apple.screensaver...plist files (3 of them), but I did not touch ...ScreenSaverPhotoChooser... or ...ScreenSaver.iLifeSlideShows...        Should I have deleted the others as well?   (though it sounds like this whole approach is not really succeeding.)

     

    com.apple.ScreenSaverPhotoChooser.A6B9BA59-E68F-5136-B477-6F62B0EEC2D9.plist           (did not delete)

    com.apple.ScreenSaver.iLifeSlideShows.A6B9BA59-E68F-5136-B477-6F62B0EEC2D9.plist        (did not delete)

    com.apple.screensaver.A6B9BA59-E68F-5136-B477-6F62B0EEC2D9.plist                                    (deleted)

  • by Luisco,

    Luisco Luisco Dec 18, 2014 1:33 AM in response to Howard Brazee
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    Dec 18, 2014 1:33 AM in response to Howard Brazee

    What has finally worked for me is to keep System Preference open.  National Geographic has not appeared again since and it's been 3 or 4 weeks now.  If I shut down the computer, NG pops up again but I just open System Preference, choose my photo library and as long as I don't shut down SP, it keeps my iPhoto Library as screensaver. 

  • by Wizyrd,

    Wizyrd Wizyrd Dec 18, 2014 8:47 PM in response to Howard Brazee
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    Dec 18, 2014 8:47 PM in response to Howard Brazee

    I have tried this. It seemed to solve it for a while, then the problem came back. I didn't find out why this keeps happening, but I did find a work-around until Apple figures it out.

     

    Set the screensaver how you like it, then go to the com.apple.screensaver.plist file in the "By Host" folder as mentioned above. Get Info on the file, and LOCK it!  Theoretically this should prevent any changes, and so far it seems to be working. Granted I only did this a day ago, but it was reverting pretty often before that and hasn't done so yet. In any case it's worth a shot.

     

    On the downside, if you want to change your screensaver, you'll have to go back and unlock it. On the other hand, how often do you change your screensaver?

  • by scrapplejoejoe,

    scrapplejoejoe scrapplejoejoe Dec 19, 2014 4:18 AM in response to Howard Brazee
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    Dec 19, 2014 4:18 AM in response to Howard Brazee

    Driving me nuts... happens to me all the time..

     

    Even when it works, the Shuffle pictures unchecks itself, so instead of randomness, i get pics from the same folder

     

    APPLE, FIX THIS BUG!

  • by mecrr,

    mecrr mecrr Dec 23, 2014 5:45 PM in response to scrapplejoejoe
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    Dec 23, 2014 5:45 PM in response to scrapplejoejoe

    We need a fix for idjits like me who don't know a plist from a sock.

    This is one big P in the A.

    David

  • by Wizyrd,

    Wizyrd Wizyrd Dec 23, 2014 11:59 PM in response to Wizyrd
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    Dec 23, 2014 11:59 PM in response to Wizyrd

    Update:
    It DID revert after a couple of days. So I tried something else... I reset my screensaver the way I like it, then I locked all THREE files that had "Screensaver" in their name, instead of just the one. So far, so good...  It's not a fix, since you'd have to go back and unlock every time you want to change your screensaver, but at least it it's a workaround until they fix it.

  • by spieg1,

    spieg1 spieg1 Dec 26, 2014 5:39 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Dec 26, 2014 5:39 PM in response to Linc Davis

    Did not solve my problem.  Followed all the steps, but on the third time the screen saver came on, it was back to Nat Geo.

  • by Italica,

    Italica Italica Dec 27, 2014 3:17 PM in response to spieg1
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    Dec 27, 2014 3:17 PM in response to spieg1

    Same here. *None* of these fixes works. In fact, I even found the folder with the National Geographic images and trashed it, but the 1-National Geographic keeps coming back. Apple has to come clean. Like Microsoft bundling its e-mail program a few years back (cause of a major legal problem), has Apple made a sweet deal with the National Geographic Corp to give them this preferred placement? Seems highly plausible: NG is not giving away its images for free. This preference is deeply embedded in Yosemite, and Apple has to now make a Microsoft-style fix and dis-bundle NG from its basic system software. Else wise, may we assume, a major lawsuit may be in the offing?

  • by Steiner1974,

    Steiner1974 Steiner1974 Dec 29, 2014 5:47 AM in response to Howard Brazee
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    Dec 29, 2014 5:47 AM in response to Howard Brazee

    I have the same problem. None of the proposed solutions have worked. APPLE - fix this with an update, please!

  • by Howard Brazee,

    Howard Brazee Howard Brazee Dec 29, 2014 4:03 PM in response to Howard Brazee
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    Dec 29, 2014 4:03 PM in response to Howard Brazee

    Neither my wife's nor my computer had done this for over a week now.   I wonder if whichever type of displaying has an effect.  (how the pictures go around the screen).

     

    One thing that happens occasionally is for me to have the same pictures show up on my iMac and on my 2nd monitor.    Usually they don't duplicate, but act.   Weird that it works that way only occasionally.  This session it is doing that.   When I reboot, I expect that will change.

  • by Wizyrd,

    Wizyrd Wizyrd Dec 29, 2014 10:08 PM in response to Howard Brazee
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    Dec 29, 2014 10:08 PM in response to Howard Brazee

    I have found that if I repeatedly "hit" the screen saver (by going to the hot corner to activate it), it will eventually flip to the National Geographic. Haven't yet discovered a "magic number" of hits before it turn.

     

    As for the monitors showing the same pic. Sometimes I get that too. But my monitors are different sizes, and eventually they fall out of sync when the larger monitor displays two pics and the smaller displays only one....

  • by Hothamhugh,

    Hothamhugh Hothamhugh Jan 2, 2015 3:22 PM in response to Steiner1974
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    Jan 2, 2015 3:22 PM in response to Steiner1974

    This minor problem is so damaging to Apple's brand as one is reminded of this bug all the time. I have had a CHAT with three of their people and the different solutions and work arounds only lasted for a short while before NatGeo reverted. What a disappointment! Find the solution Apple!

  • by Howard Brazee,

    Howard Brazee Howard Brazee Jan 3, 2015 11:19 AM in response to Hothamhugh
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    Jan 3, 2015 11:19 AM in response to Hothamhugh

    This would seem to be a simple bug.    So what reasons can you come up with for it not being fixed.    Any that reflect well on Apple?

  • by mmoverman,

    mmoverman mmoverman Jan 4, 2015 2:47 PM in response to Howard Brazee
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    Jan 4, 2015 2:47 PM in response to Howard Brazee

    Boy am I glad I waited until after the holidays to try to deal with this problem.  I think I'll wait a little longer.

  • by Hothamhugh,

    Hothamhugh Hothamhugh Jan 4, 2015 3:07 PM in response to Hothamhugh
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    Jan 4, 2015 3:07 PM in response to Hothamhugh

    I have now tried Luisco's solution of leaving open the system preferences on screen saver and so far it has worked!!

    Hothamhugh

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