Photo Screen Saver not functioning with Yosemite Upgrade

In case you're wondering I am still having this glitch. 5 Months in.

If you weren't wondering, Sorry for the interruption.

I'm having the same problem None of the fixes here solved it. Come on Apple.

I installed OSX 10.10.3 this afternoon and wanted to see if it fixed the screensaver problems we've been having. This release also includes Photos (replaces iPhoto) and the screensaver preferences uses it to decide which photos to display when the screensaver is running. It lets you pick an album, year, etc., but not the last 12 months. Photos does let you create Smart Albums and you can easily create a "Last 12 Months" album. Once that album is created, you can select it in the screensaver preferences. So far (just a couple hours), it seems to be working. I haven't tried a restart yet to see if it remembers the setting.

Jay

FFingers crossed. Thanks!

It survived a restart.

-Jay

I did a little work (Quicken), and the screen saver went to National Geographic!

UG!!

Jay

Also finding that the upgrade to 10.10.3 has NOT fixed the issue. Actually, 10.10.3 also created some NEW bugs in the Finder, added to a bunch of other 10.10 bugs that Apple has yet to fix. I know Apple is really focused on the Apple Watch these days, but they must have at least ONE developer who's working on OS X bugs. It seems like Mac OS X is an afterthought for Apple, if a thought at all.

I have the same problem and just reported it to Apple Feedback. Hopefully they will fix bug in next update.

This appears to have been the fix for me -- though time will tell...

I can confirm 10.10.3 has not fixed the issue. I have noticed a possible pattern though (same in previous BTW): it seems to default back to Nat Geo when I change wifi networks. I have no idea how they are possibly related, but it definitely happened in the last few occasions.

Yeah, in addition to the NatGeo bug, now with 10.10.3 the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane won't load/view any landscape-oriented photos from the albums/events in Photos. I've started a new help thread for this bug here: 10.10.3 Screen saver/Desktop preference pane only accessing vertically-oriented photos.

Jared

The same bug - I have 110GB of my own pictures I want to see as my screensaver, I go to System Preferences, Desktop & Screen Saver, choose any screensaver with pictures (usually Classic I prefer), set Source to either any folder or Photo Library (iPhoto before), and it works for a while. And then, some next random time, it switches back to the **** National Geographic. "Shuffle" on or off makes no difference. Repairing permissions in Disk Utility (like somebody suggested) makes no difference. Even a complete clean install to a totally new disk (SSD this time) made no difference. It worked great before Yosemite, was broken in 10.10, and now it does not work even in 10.10.3, with Photos (choosing a set of photos from Photos makes no difference, just as it did not with iPhoto).

How hard can it be to fix a simple bug in a simplest piece of OS possible? Steve Jobs would already fired all you guys long ago for that!

The MB Air seems pretty stable now so I decided to install 10.10.3 on our iMac. Photos is working although I had to find the iPhoto library for it because it isn't in the default location (which is <Home Directory>/Pictures). The option to select the "Photo Library..." isn't available in Screen Saver Preferences so I can't select any of the albums in Photos (see attached). Both are 10.10.3. I could try moving the iPhoto Library to the default location and see what happens. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Jay

I moved the iPhoto Library and the Photos Library to the default location (<Home Directory>/Pictures) and Screen Saver Preferences let me select the album from the list in Photos.

Jay

I'm very sorry for my english.. i'm italian so please to understand me.

but i want to tell you i have the exactly same bug of yours.

when try to set my photo library for the screensaver it works for a while.

then i don't understand why and how it switch in nat geo photo....

i think this is a stupid bug can fix very simple... why apple release many beta version but don't fix this!!! is very bad!!!

and this is not the only bug i found...

i can't use the notification center with safari because this stop working in a wile like screensaver!!! from the start all work good.. but in a short time all seems buggy... please apple... fix it soon... i'm really frustrated for this and i always thinking to change my pc for come back to windows... for really i don't want to do but if don't come back like in the past (snow leopard for ex.) i think i sell my mac for buy new normal pc...