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Q: Screensaver source says Loading... for ever

Photo screen saver hasn't worked properly since the previous upgrade of Aperture to combine libraries with iPhoto.

Post the Mountain Lion upgrade, I can't even configure the screensaver.  I call up the panel and I can choose the slideshow type (different arrangement of photo shapes on the sceen), but the source drop down offers only a single option "Loading..." even if I leave it for some time - so I can no longer even choose a folder (rather than part of my Aperture library given that there is a running issue with photos from Aperture in the screen saver).

(I've tried choosing one of the non-photo screensavers and then coming back to a photo one, but it's the same, always Loading... in the drop down and Loading Photos... in the preview panel - but never anything else.

Has anyone else seen this? (who has Aperture - as I guess this is still linked to the problem introduced by the pre-Mountain Lion Aperture update - I've taken the Aperture upgrade that is available immediately after upgrading to Mountain Lion).

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion, Aperture 3.3.2

Posted on Jul 28, 2012 2:13 AM

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  • by softwater,

    softwater softwater Aug 15, 2012 5:13 AM in response to edward67
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    Mac OS X
    Aug 15, 2012 5:13 AM in response to edward67

    So you mean when you create a new user account, the same problem occurs?

     

    What if you start in Safe Mode? Do you still get the same issue?

  • by edward67,

    edward67 edward67 Aug 17, 2012 7:44 PM in response to softwater
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    Aug 17, 2012 7:44 PM in response to softwater

    So sorry not to have replied before, but I've been having terrible problems with my MBP

     

    It's now decided it can't see the @£$%^#! SSD on my laptop, so I am having to boot up from the backup drive, which is still running 10.7.4 - and on which everything is working fine.

     

    Thank goodness for DropBox, otherwise I'd have no access to all my work over the past couple of weeks...

     

    I think I'll just have to wait until Apple posts an update to Mountain Lion.

     

    Grrrrrr.

     

    Thanks again for all your suggestions - I do appreciate you taking the time to try and help!  :-)

  • by morberg,

    morberg morberg Aug 18, 2012 3:36 AM in response to hedgert
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    Aug 18, 2012 3:36 AM in response to hedgert

    My screensaver has stopped working again, something is definitely not as is should. Here's my console log when I try to start the screensaver:

     

    2012-08-18 12:29:31,472 WindowServer[94]: CGXSetWindowBackgroundBlurRadius: Invalid window 0xffffffff

    2012-08-18 12:29:31,473 loginwindow[33788]: find_shared_window: WID -1

    2012-08-18 12:29:31,473 loginwindow[33788]: CGSGetWindowTags: Invalid window 0xffffffff

    2012-08-18 12:29:31,473 loginwindow[33788]: find_shared_window: WID -1

    2012-08-18 12:29:31,473 loginwindow[33788]: CGSSetWindowTags: Invalid window 0xffffffff

    2012-08-18 12:29:31,483 coreservicesd[31]: Application App:"loginwindow" [ 0x0/0x1eb8eb7]  @ 0x0x7f98bbe2ca60 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontASNs ( ( ASN:0x0-0x21b61b4:) ), so denying.

    2012-08-18 12:29:31,483 WindowServer[94]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to loginwindow, psn 0x0-0x1eb8eb7, securitySessionID=0x18870, err=-13066

    2012-08-18 12:29:31,873 ScreenSaverEngine[35763]: void *NSMapGet(NSMapTable *, const void *): map table argument is NULL

     

    [72 instances of the same entry removed]

     

    2012-08-18 12:29:31,891 ScreenSaverEngine[35763]: void *NSMapGet(NSMapTable *, const void *): map table argument is NULL

    2012-08-18 12:29:36,211 ScreenSaverEngine[35763]: *** -[__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:]: object cannot be nil

    2012-08-18 12:29:36,212 ScreenSaverEngine[35763]: (

              0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8f1db716 __exceptionPreprocess + 198

              1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff90147470 objc_exception_throw + 43

              2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8f18bf2a -[__NSArrayM insertObject:atIndex:] + 282

              3   ScreenSaver                         0x00007fff8c5cd7ae -[ScreenSaverPhotoChooser _imagePathsForMediaGroupID:] + 269

              4   ScreenSaver                         0x00007fff8c5cbc62 -[ScreenSaverPhotoChooser listOfPhotoPathsFromSelectedSource] + 165

              5   iLifeSlideshows                     0x000000010e734d82 __47-[iLifeSlideshowScreenSaverView startAnimation]_block_invoke_0 + 54

              6   ScreenSaver                         0x00007fff8c5ccd7f -[ScreenSaverPhotoChooser checkLoadingMediaManagersForPhotoListRequest] + 312

              7   Foundation                          0x00007fff8a91cfe5 __NSFireDelayedPerform + 358

              8   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8f1984b4 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 20

              9   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8f197fcd __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 557

              10  CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8f17d7b9 __CFRunLoopRun + 1513

              11  CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8f17cdd2 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 290

              12  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff90932774 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 209

              13  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff90932512 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 356

              14  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff909323a3 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 62

              15  AppKit                              0x00007fff9208ffa3 _DPSNextEvent + 685

              16  AppKit                              0x00007fff9208f862 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128

              17  ScreenSaverEngine                   0x000000010c0bd747 -[ScreenSaverApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 49

              18  AppKit                              0x00007fff92086c03 -[NSApplication run] + 517

              19  ScreenSaverEngine                   0x000000010c0bd5a3 main + 551

              20  libdyld.dylib                       0x00007fff8e79d7e1 start + 0

              21  ???                                 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1

    )

  • by Ernst Vikne,

    Ernst Vikne Ernst Vikne Aug 22, 2012 12:06 PM in response to hedgert
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    Aug 22, 2012 12:06 PM in response to hedgert

    I found a solution that worked! At least for me. I had a smart folder in Aperture and wanted these photos in my screensaver. Some of the photos were offline, on another network disc. I discovered that when the images were online, the screensaver worked, otherwise it could load forever (I tried at least one hour). I have tried several times to mount and unmount the disc, and my suspicion holds true.

     

    Now I have changed the smart folder to only contain online photos, and the screensaver works always! I don't know why the sceensaver needs the original files, because the previews are more than large enough, and the original files didn't need to be online before I updated to Mountain Lion.

  • by morberg,

    morberg morberg Aug 24, 2012 8:15 AM in response to morberg
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    Aug 24, 2012 8:15 AM in response to morberg

    After installing 10.8.1 the problem seemed to go away, but it was only the reboot after installation that gave temporary relief.

     

    Screensaver is unfortunately still broken in 10.8.1 and the error messages in the log are the same.

  • by johannes.mahne,

    johannes.mahne johannes.mahne Aug 29, 2012 4:19 AM in response to morberg
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    Aug 29, 2012 4:19 AM in response to morberg

    Looks like I am getting the same problem:

     

    I selected one of the Default Collections as screensaver, and presumably these images are online... The behaviour I have is that when I want to log in to my MBP again, it doesn't bring up the login window, and I have to hard reset the machine.

     

    My behaviour is confirmed by what I see in the logs:

     

    CalendarAgent[314]: [com.apple.calendar.store.log.caldav.queue] [Account refresh failed with error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1004 "Could not connect to the server."


    and then a couple of lines down:

     

    Application App:"loginwindow" [ 0x0/0x1001]  @ 0x0x7f8229610ed0 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontASNs ( ( ASN:0x0-0x30e30e:) ), so denying.

  • by licores222,

    licores222 licores222 Aug 29, 2012 4:30 AM in response to johannes.mahne
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    Aug 29, 2012 4:30 AM in response to johannes.mahne

    I've solved the problem. I installed Aperture and the screensaver started working again.

    I had deleted Aperture last year, but I looks like the screensaver is liked to it in some way.

     

    Hope it helps.

  • by johannes.mahne,

    johannes.mahne johannes.mahne Aug 29, 2012 4:54 AM in response to licores222
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Aug 29, 2012 4:54 AM in response to licores222

    Aperture is $80. Too steep for me to fix a bug.

  • by morberg,

    morberg morberg Aug 29, 2012 5:14 AM in response to johannes.mahne
    Level 1 (10 points)
    Aug 29, 2012 5:14 AM in response to johannes.mahne

    I have Aperture installed on my system but the screensaver doesn't work anyway. No need for you to shell out $80 to test it.

     

    The suggestion from Ernst Vikne is interesting, I'll try it when I get a moment. I have my original raw files on a network disk, but previews locally (of course).

  • by edward67,

    edward67 edward67 Aug 29, 2012 6:09 AM in response to morberg
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    Aug 29, 2012 6:09 AM in response to morberg

    I also have Aperture, but the screensaver doesn't work for me either.


    I tried Ernst Vikne's suggestion, but problem persists in my case...

  • by morberg,

    morberg morberg Aug 29, 2012 9:12 AM in response to Ernst Vikne
    Level 1 (10 points)
    Aug 29, 2012 9:12 AM in response to Ernst Vikne

    Thanks, this seems to have solved my problem. I had the share with my raw files automount on login which is why a reboot helped me. Sometimes the share gets disconnected and then the screensaver will not work anymore.

     

    Now on to see if I can make the share persistent...

  • by Mssanity,

    Mssanity Mssanity Sep 8, 2012 1:49 PM in response to Sean Hassett
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    Sep 8, 2012 1:49 PM in response to Sean Hassett

    me neither.

  • by eagillan,

    eagillan eagillan Oct 3, 2012 2:23 AM in response to hedgert
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Oct 3, 2012 2:23 AM in response to hedgert

    There are a couple of work-arounds you can do, but I really doubt the problem will be fixed in 10.8.3 or any other future updates. I've learned that in order to have the screensaver work like it always did before you must purchase the iPhoto11 upgrade for $14.99. I just did it and of course "magically" it all works fine again. I believe it was all preplanned and is just one more way for Apple to squeeze out hundreds of millions of more dollars from its "loyal customers". Why is it we can't just get our upgrades such as iPhoto, Garage Band, iMovie etc., right along with the upgrades for the newest OS X?  Now that would be a fine goodwill gesture for all of Apple's loyal customers.

  • by Mssanity,

    Mssanity Mssanity Oct 3, 2012 8:04 AM in response to eagillan
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Oct 3, 2012 8:04 AM in response to eagillan

    True. Screensaver is not important, but it is annoying that it doesn't work right with the Lion upgrade. Really. How hard can it be to do something the same as before, huh?

  • by Onkelpazuzu,

    Onkelpazuzu Onkelpazuzu Oct 10, 2012 6:54 AM in response to hedgert
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    Oct 10, 2012 6:54 AM in response to hedgert

    I had the same problem and the terminal commanddid not help. What I just found out is that re-naming the iPhoto library file (located in User - Pictures - I just renamed it from iPhoto Library to iPhoto Library_test) solved the problem. I suspected that the issue had to do with iPhoto referring to an external disk and ML somehow thinking that this then was the case for all pictures.

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