Photo Screen Saver not functioning with Yosemite Upgrade

I'm experiencing the same bug -- looking for suggestions.

I have this problem. I has my iPhoto library on an Apple 3TB time capsule and it will not allow me to select iPhoto as my screen saver (this does not even come up as an option)

I have the exact same problem since I loaded Yosemite. I go to system preferences and select my iPhoto folder as my option for my screensaver and it works for a while but then it reverts back to the National Geographic pictures. Does anyone have a solution to lock in the selected folder? Thanks

Glad to see I'm not the only one having this problem. It's happening on both my iMac and my MacBook Pro. Dammit all.

I do have the same problem, as soon as my computer goes to sleep the NG screensaver pushes my iPhoto folder away. It started when I upgraded my iMac to Yosemite. I'm following this thread to hopefully get a resolve. Safety in numbers makes me feel better but a fix would be perfect.

Same here. In desperation I deleted every plist file I could find that contained the word "screensaver" on my MBP. No luck. Very frustrating.

I'm getting a ton of error messages on console about failed plugins in /Library/Application Support/iLifeMediaBrowser/Plug-Ins/ When I moved that file temporarily to the trash and tried to pick my iPhoto library in the screensaver pref pane, it was no longer visible. Maybe that's the culprit?

has anyone found a solution for this? ... it's very annoying and strange for a Mac ...

I might have found a workaround.

• Open Preferences > Desktop and Screen Saver
• Set up the screensaver as you want it to work (for me: iPhoto > flagged)
• Don't close the preferences pane - minimise it to the Dock

It appears to hold the settings correctly as long as it remains opened and minimised.

Bit of a rubbish workaround, but it'll have to do for now.

ok - totally stupid question - I cannot drag the open system preferences to the dock ...

how are you doing this when you say "minimise it to the dock" ...

There are no such things as stupid questions!

Just hit the yellow button on the top left of the Screen Saver preferences panel. It should genie down into the dock.

LOL - yes there are and your being very kind.

I already had the system preferences in the dock ...

and frankly didn't even think of minimising it down into the dock

kept trying to move it there ... idiot ... thanks - I'll let you know

if it works - seems like it should - but it's an annoying bug with

the screen saver reverting back to "National Geographic" ...

love their pictures - but frankly I prefer mine ...

thanks again for your suggestion

@thisisrjg - just a small note to say thanks -- your "work around" works very nicely.

it's a kludge that seems to chew up some extra memory - but it does solve the problem ...

let's hope apple sees fit to fix this annoying little bug in the next release.

I have the same issue.

Try this. I think this has worked for me. Only time will tell.

This solved my question by dominic23 on Oct 22, 2014 4:33 PM

Close all windows and quit all applications.

Hold the option key down and click the "Go" menu in the Finder menubar.

Select "Library" from the dropdown, then "Preferences" folder.

Look for these two files.

com.apple.desktop.plist

com.apple.systempreferences.plist

Right click each one of those and select " Move To Trash" from the contextual menu.

Restart the computer.

Having the same issue. It seems to work fine until I shut down or restart my computer. Hopefully apple puts out an update to fix this.