Apple Screen Savers Missing

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Apple Screen Savers Missing

I have a Power Mac G5. I have had system pref problems. A blank screen was showing, I formatted and re-installed and that fixed the problem........but my screen savers have gone. I only have flurry and computer name under the Apple choices. I want the itunes artwork one back. I have tried trashing the cache(s), plists etc. all to no avail. Any idea???? Thanks

g5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jan 7, 2010 2:48 AM

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Király

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Jan 7, 2010 4:35 PM in response to rvrman21

Are the screen savers still missing from the list when you log in to a different user account?

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rvrman21 Author

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Jan 8, 2010 1:15 AM in response to Király

I have only 1 user account with no p/word. I tried copying the framewwork from another mac running 10.5.8, that did not work (prob wrong file) so another reinstall, same problem. Bizare I have 4 mac here all aok but this one that has formatted clean drives new install . No problem adding 3rd party s/savers they all appear in the "other" folder".. Is there anywhere I can download these extra apple s/savers?

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Király

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Jan 8, 2010 7:05 AM in response to rvrman21

rvrman21 wrote:
I have only 1 user account with no p/word.

Create another. Try it. Report back.

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rvrman21 Author

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Jan 8, 2010 8:10 AM in response to rvrman21

I found the iTunesArtwork.screensaver file. It was in the root, system, library, screensaver folder, but for some reason it would not show on the list. I copied all the apple .screensaver files and popped them in my user level library. Now I can see them as "other". _Thanks so much_, your user query really made me think about the position of these files. Strange that it would not address on the HD Sys folder? Have a good new year.

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