Default settings for ALL slideshows?

No, I am afraid not, that does not work.
That is what I first thought, when I saw the check box. But after using it changed my mind. I then thought it only kept those settings as default for only that slide show, and you had to do it for each folder.

Since reading your post, I have tried again.

I now notice that it does not work at all.
Whenever the Check box for 'Use Settings As Default' is ticked it does not stick, even for the same Event

The use as default check box does not work.

I check it, play a slide show, close the slideshow, and play again and the tick in the check box has gone and all settings are back to original (Ken Burns effect, music etc)

So looks like I will have to change my question to

"How do I fix my broken iPhoto default check box?"

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Looks like we cross posted while I was editing my post

But no
Trashed the plist and tried again.

Still no luck


in fact worse.

Every side show I try now, keeps the title of the first slide show I play.

Will try again in an hour or so.

Got to go and pick up the girlfriend from work


Will trash the file again and do a re boot. Hopefully it will have re started when I get back

Old Toad

When you use the word 'albums' are you referring to Albums you have created yourself using File/New Album ? or using it generically to mean any group of photos in the Events, Photos, Faces or Places sections of the library?

I have not created any Albums as such, I am just trying to get a slideshow to play from the 4 categories in the Library.

I do not want to have to select the settings each time whenever I highlight an event or Face of Place.

I was hoping there was a iPhoto wide slide show default setting that covered all slideshows.

Just a nuisance to have to set the settings each time you want to play a slideshow of a different batch of photos.

Thanks for the Photo Presenter Link. I will try that, although it may be a bit more complex than I (well the girlfriend) wants. Am having a play with Phoenix Slides and JPEGDeux at the moment. They both play a slideshow on the screen they were opened in without hijacking the other monitors as well.
+Edit: yes, it offers lots of options...exactly what I am trying to avoid I just want a simple slideshow, all the same. select Event/folder, click and play+

I have not created any Albums that you are talking about, just trying to play slide shows, by highlighting a group of pics in the library and hitting the Slideshow button on the bottom of the screen.

Terrence, I created a new iPhoto Library, and dragged two folders of photos into it from a store of photos on the NAS serve. Photos that had never been imported before...so totally fresh data that has not been on the Mac before.
That import created two new events as expected.
Highlight one and click Slideshow icon down the bottom of the iPhoto screen. The usual box pops up I select Shatter, No music and two second time change.
Play the show and it works as expected. Play it again and it remembers the settings, although the Check box saying Use as Default is now empty.

Select the other Event, and Slideshow, the options box still pops up, but it has kept the settings I set before, so I still need to click the play button a second time to get it to play.

So every time I hit the Slideshow button on a new event, for the first time, the options box pops up. Subsequent times it does not. So looks like that is the way it is.

I can do it, no matter how annoying it may be, but the girlfriend is very technophobic, as soon as something like this pops up, she gives up.

Thanks for giving this a shot, but looks like this is how Mac planned it.

Neil

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Managed library, all files copied to iPhoto.

If you pause a slideshow that is running, and click on the settings icon to change something, what do you see? Is the Use settings as Default check box ticked or is it blank?

What happens if you import a new folder of pictures, and immediately click on the new Event that the import created, then click Slideshow? Does it play the slideshow directly in that case?

Ok, well that is what mine does also, so those default settings are only default settings for the one album/folder of photos.

Looks like that is the way it is. Would have expected default settings to be system wide. Oh well,