System Preferences | Screen Saver - running slow

Awesome! Glad it worked. Spread the word.

Hi all,

I performed the repair disk permissions step, then I installed iLife 9.0.3.

Not certain that the iphoto step is required (I deleted iPhoto for spite).

Try the disk utility repair disk permissions, and load the 9.0.3 and see what happens.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Sorry.

I should have said that the disk permissions and iLife 9.0.3 install cleared up the problem.

It appears to me that System Preferences is hanging trying to read photos in the iPhoto library, but I'm guessing.

Thanks for the help!

Disk permissions and Ilife 9.0.3 worked for me too. Was having the same hang problem on a new migrated mbp 13". Looks to be all straightened out now.

I was suffering from the same problem. Now it seems that installing the iLife 9.03 -update has solved it.

I also solved the same problem by repairing disk permissions and updating iLife to the version 9.0.3.

Thanks at all for your efforts!

Glad to hear it. Somebody should mark this post answered, to help out others who may be searching these forums.

manually updating the ilife update fixed all my issues! thank you!!

Doing a manual install of the iLife 9.03 update solved this for me. I upgraded from a Dual G5 2.3 PowerMac to a Mac Pro and had this problem after using Migration Assistant.

I had the same issues. Upgraded from a 2007 MacBook (white) to a 13" MBP and migrated settings/files from Time Machine. System Preference hung up at Screen Saver options. I ran the manual iLife update above, and instantly everything works perfectly. All iPhoto events and libraries now show up in the Screen Saver options and no longer hangs up. Thanks for the help!

I was having the same problem after using the Migration Assistant for a 13 Black Macbook to a new 15 MacBook Pro, tried everything that I could without any luck. Found this topic in discussions and tried the Fix that posted. Everything is now working. Even the Itunes cover screensaver loaded.

Thanks everyone.

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Marc,

Downloaded and installed the iLife Support 9.0.3 update - this fixed things for me.

Thanks - I spent a lot of time on this, including a call into Apple support.

Cheers!

I can't tell you how grateful I am to you and how disappointed I am in Apple's support. I spoke with two entry level people and a "Product Specialist." The first told me to reinstall the system, which I did, to no avail. Then I googled, found this discussion and saw that there was some hope with the iLife support 9.0.3. I was still a little dubious and called Apple again. Upon my insistence they "escalated" me to a "Product Specialist."

He told me I had to reinstall the system again, this time without saving settings. He knew nothing about the screen saver preference problem. When I told him about the discussion here, he just said "We don't read that." It seems to me that they must be wasting a lot of their time and users' time with many calls on the subject. It would behoove Apple to read these discussions and learn. And even HELP. There certainly should have been a software update for this particular issue. Thank you again. I am relieved but no thanks to Apple.

Yup! I think i have the same problem migrating from macbook to macbookpro, the spinning wheel stuck on flurry (is that the problem?) very annoying! also cant read my I tunes library. What to do, what to do.

Hey, Hey success! thanks for all the steps, the last one (step) i accidently bonged 2 times missing the third but it worked.
Now I can go to the beach again with out the nightmares of the dreaded sbbod!!
Cheers. Tannersan