My all time favorite screen saver, Apples built in beautiful photos of beach scenes, gone. I see they've add new other ones, but I want my beach photos back. Any ideas how I can get that screen saver back on Mountain Lion?
Try and google it... 🙂 "default beach screensaver/wallpaper mac" then download it and set it as screensaver
Get it from your Time Machine backup.
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I too would like to get my beach screensaver back. I have the pictures but I haven't been able to figure out how/where to put them. If I put them on the Desktop it takes forever for them to load. I want it to come on like it did before!
I found the answer to your question in a thread from 2003. It worked for me but the images are only 1024 x 768 pixels. I hope it is okay to post this link from another forum.
"Images from Beach screensaver as JPGs?"
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=20110
I would like Apple to put back in the options we had with Mac OS 10.7.4, for the Screen Saver portion of "Desktop & Screen Saver" in System Preferences and keep the new Screen Saver options from OS Mountain Lion.
What steps do you take to get them from Time Machine? Sorry I am a newbie to Apple.
IF YOU ONLY LOVE THE BEACH SCREENSAVER I SUGEST YOU TO DO THIS:
1. GO TO YOUR HDD OR SSD / SYSTEM / LIBRARY / SCREEN SAVERS, AND DELETE EVERYTHING BUT THE FILE "BEACH.SLIDESAVER" (YOU CAN BACKUP THE OTHER FILES IF YOU WISH TO GET THEM BACK)
2. GO TO SYSTEM PREFERENCES / DESKTOP & SCREEN SAVER / CHOOSE KEN BURNS (FROM THE LIST OF SLIDESHOWS
3. IN THE "SOURCE" DROPDOWN MENU: CHOOSE FOLDER / HDD OR SSD / SYSTEM / LIBRARY / SCREEN SAVERS.
ENJOY.
P.S.: IT'S GOOD IF YOU WANT TO GET SOME MORE SPACE ON YOUR SSD (EVEN IF IT'S ONLY A FEW MB... AND YOU AVOID SEARCHING FOR IMAGES AND PUT THEM INTO A FOLDER...).
I have that screensaver in my HD/System/Library/Screen Savers folder but the system doesn't recognize it. Check your HD/System/Library/Screen Savers folder to see if you have it.
Control (right)-click on the Beach.slidesaver package and select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu and open the Resources folder. There you will find the jpeg files that make up the screensaver.
You can Option+drag (copy) them to the Desktop and import to your iPhoto library, put them in an album and use that album as your screensaver thru the System preferences.
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The problem is that I don't have the beach file 😟
This is what I see :/
Did you have it previously? If so do you have Time Machine backups of your hard drive so you can go back it time and restore just that slideshow file?
hrq:
Don't post in all caps. It's difficult to read and is tantamount to shouting.
I think I might have used the beach screensaver before, not too sure though. I think I just selected "when a screensaver is needed, one will be selected at random". How do I use Time Machine anyways? I kinda need help.
Thanks, but is there a way to download like the beach.slidesaver file?
If you retained/kept a copy of your ML installer package, then mount the InstallESD.dmg contained inside the installer's SharedSupport folder and use Pacifist to extract the Screen Savers from the MediaFiles.pkg.
I don't think I kept that either 😟 for some reason I really love deleting installer files after I install a program. Does anyone mind if they upload all beach screensaver pictures here please? It would be much appreciated, thanks 🙂
Where did my beach screensaver go?
