Screensaver freezes on startup

;0) Plus im 37 already

😮 ! I would have guessed late 20's early 30's

were you able to recreate the bug when you force your screensaver on or was it only when you let it automatically go to the screensaver after a certain time? If the PRAM doesn't work, you might need to let spotlight reindex your hard drive.

Although initiating the process doesn't take long, depending on how much stuff you have on your hard drive, it may take a while to complete. During this time your computer might act slower then normal.

if the PRAM doesn't solve your issue, go to system preferences>spotlight>privacy and then add your itunes folder. and then immediately take it off of the privacy list. This will make spotlight reindex the folder.

This just happened to me again for the first time in a while. I do think it is related to the power/energy saver settings, because this is the first time since the last time this happened that my laptop wasn't plugged in when it went to sleep. So I reduced the time to screensaver and sleep to a minimum to test it. I didn't have a problem starting up from screensaver or sleep when plugged in, but did with it on battery. I could still start up from screensaver, but when I left it longer and started it up from sleep, the screensaver came on when I clicked a key, but not the login icons. I had to do the eraser thing with the pointer to uncover that; then it started up fine.

I had the energy saver preferences set to shut down the hard drive when possible - I don't know how long it takes before it does that. I had it set for the computer to go to sleep after 3 minutes and I was away for about 45 minutes.

I'll try the PRAM reset per SmokeMonster's instructions and let you know.

I did the PRAM reset and let my laptop go to sleep without being plugged in. Login came right up when I clicked on the shift key (doesn't work with the space key) - on a black screen, not with the screensaver, which is fine with me. I don't seem to have lost any of my settings for touchpad, display, etc.

What are you waiting for? Also did you report this to apple in feedback? Not at my computer right now but it's located in the support area.

Try deleting this file:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist

and then re-starting your mac.

Don’t worry, deleting the file is harmless. It will just recreate itself to default settings when the computer reboots. It may be that the current file is corrupt.

Note: to get to this file in Lion, you have to chose ‘Go’ menu from the Finder menubar at the top of the screen, while keeping the ‘option’ key held down. When you do this, you will see ‘Library’ in the Go menu bar. Click on it and navigate to Preferences and look for the file com.apple.screensaver.plist and trash it.

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