“Source:” Drop down Menu in Screensaver gone Missing
After Uninstalling the Aerial screensaver from GitHub on my iMac macOS Big Sur 11.6, when selecting anything above the default screen savers, Ken Burns, Classic, etc., The “Source:” drop down menu and option to “Shuffle slide order” have disappeared, gone, and can only select Flurry, Drift, etc. Desktop selections are all functioning normally.
With the help of a few here we have run out of ideas working on this the past week. Even Apple Support and delegated to a Senior Advisor with screen sharing sessions lasting a few hours this has now been sent to engineering, which will take about a week to schedule a session, as I’m seven hours away from the nearest Apple store.
Creating a new “User” and screensaver functions normally.
Safe mode, deleting preferences plist(of interest a new plist is not created) nor a TM Recover of plist(all 69 bytes), reinstalling Big Sur from Recovery Partition, and finally deleting User and creating new User bringing over Home folder did not fix. Resetting Home folder permissions in Recovery Partition also did not fix. Grrr 😖…
If anyone has discovered what might fix this, some members would be most grateful, as found this has occurred to other members’ from similar postings, with members’ suggestions already listed here.
Best, Seth