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growler62000 Author

Level 2

203 points

Tahoe aerial screensavers storage location?

There are 79 available Landscape screensavers. Settings/Wallpaper/Screen Saver/Landscape.

Most have the downward arrow displayed on the thumbnail that you click to D/L that one. A few, apparently, are already downloaded.

I had already used a few in rotation with Sequoia, b4 I upgraded to Tahoe.

I went through the list & D/L all the ones with an arrow!

I cannot find where they are stored on my mac! I want to see how much space each one takes up. I think ~ 500MB. They probably all .mov files.

I searched & found several sources saying they are located here:

Macintosh HD/library/application support/com.apple.idleassetsd/customer/4KSDR240FPS

But I see only 5 .mov files there. I cannot find the other 74 files!

The other 2K & 4K folders in "Customer" folder are empty.

Where are they?

My current screen saver (I set it to rotate every 12 hrs.) is NOT one of the 5 in that 4KSDR240FPS folder.

Mac Studio

Posted on Sep 25, 2025 2:43 AM

16 replies

dialabrain

Level 10

138,595 points

Sep 25, 2025 3:02 PM in response to growler62000

For what it's worth, I found all .mov files on my Mac using EasyFind, including the ones for screensavers. There are 86 .mov files. Some are audio only. Most do not have the name of the screensaver but have names such as 00BA71CD-2C54-415A-A68A-8358E677D750.mov. The screensavers seem to be mostly in '/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer'

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Tahoe aerial screensavers storage location?