Pictures screensaver insanely slow after updating to 10.6.2
Neither by using the "iPhoto" options nor by selecting the folder containing all my photos.
Displaying the iPhoto folder with a year worth of pictures causes a five minute delay before the screen saver starts. When I point the screen saver to a folder containing all my pictures in System Preferences the panel stalls with 90% CUP usage and my computer fans start, I have to force quit System Preferences.
Before 10.6.2 starting the pictures screen saver from the same map took 5 seconds at the most.
When I select a folder with only a few images it works fine.
When I use fs_usage to check out what's happening it looks as if the screen saver engine does a file-by-file scan instead of a spotlight search to scan the pictures folder.
A rebuild of the spotlight indices using "mdutil -E" does not solve this. Neither did a re-install of the 10.6.2 combo updater. For testing purposes I created a new user but that didn't help either.
Hope someone knows a fix easier than going back to 10.6.1 since displaying random pictures from all my photo's was one of the features I really appreciated (iMac in living room).
iMac 24", Other OS, 10.6.2