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Photo Screen Saver not functioning with Yosemite Upgrade

Recently I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Yosemite. I have always used a folder in iPhoto for my screen saver via system preferences. Ever since the upgrade this folder will no longer function as the screen saver. The screen saver option in System Preferences always defaults to Apples National Geographic photos that is installed with Yosemite. After I select the folder I want I "preview" the screen saver and my photos are there. Once the screen saver kicks itself in, the NG photos are there and the system settings are back to NG photos and not my photos. Now, I will admit the NG photos are far above my photos, but I really prefer my photos. Is Apple evaluating photo quality on the screen savers? Kidding - any ideas?

Scott

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 19, 2014 5:59 AM

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scottfcook Author

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Oct 24, 2014 3:41 AM in response to scottfcook

I found a temporary fix that seems to work. I went to the "Home" folder in finder, then to "Pictures". Created a folder called "ScreenSaver" and dragged all of my photos I want on my screen saver into that folder. Then went into system preferences and in the screen saver options hit the "+" button to add another folder and selected that folder. I have not seen hide nor hair of NG photos in my screen saver since then. I hope Apple finds a fix for this because it looks like iPhoto is having a conflict with system preferences.

Scott

scottfcook Author

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Oct 24, 2014 5:15 AM in response to scottfcook

Disregard the "fix" I thought I found. Once I rebooted my MacBook the screen saver reverted back to NG and my desktop photos also reverted back to what I had with Maverick. This is beginning to feel "Microsoft'ish" 😟

Apple - any thoughts?

Oct 24, 2014 5:30 AM in response to scottfcook

@scottfcook: Take your fix a step further. Navigate to /Library/Screen Savers/Default Collections/ and create a new folder there. Open the 1-National Geographic folder and drag all the photos in it into your new folder. Or simply trash them -- I'm tired of those **** polar bears. Now open a new finder window, go to your Photos folder and drag (or copy) the photos you want for your screensaver into the 1-National Geographic folder. You need to have administrator privileges and will be told to enter your password a couple of times to do all this. It's not elegant, but it works.

scottfcook Author

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Oct 25, 2014 2:44 AM in response to stonetownmike

@stonetownmike I did this and may have added a step I should not have. I deleted all folders in the screen saver folder. Placed my folder so its the only folder in the screen saver folder. Worked during the day yesterday. Today, when its looking for the photos it comes up as "no photos found". Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Somewhere there is coding to look for that @#%$ NG folder. I should have followed your steps and kept the folder with my photos enclosed.

Oct 25, 2014 5:13 AM in response to scottfcook

@scottfcook: Make sure you name your new folder 1-National Geographic.

Oct 25, 2014 7:25 AM in response to scottfcook

Ok another work around......I changed the preferred display to 'shifting tiles' and checked 'show clock'. 24 hours now, still functioning. Let me know.

Oct 25, 2014 7:26 AM in response to TaylorP56659

any fix for this - it is very annoying.

So many bugs with Yosemite.

yendoggy

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Oct 25, 2014 10:59 AM in response to scottfcook

yes uber annoying... just adding my post so Apple knows we're all seeing this.

Oct 25, 2014 5:05 PM in response to yendoggy

Same problem, this time on my iMac. Fix please Apple

Oct 27, 2014 2:07 AM in response to scottfcook

I also have this exact same problem. Just to let Apple know this seems to be a bigger problem..

Mithos_k

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Oct 27, 2014 7:17 AM in response to scottfcook

Guys - I have the same problem, and it may not be a fix for you, but read this article on Macworld - it looks like similar issues are caused by a third - party software, so this may ba a problem with incompatible software you have installed on your Mac, that conflicts with Yosiemite somehow. I mean we might have to wait longer for this issue to be fixed, as probably multiple programs may be causing that for some reason.

I do hope Apple will push those software companies to correct the bugs in their software or maybe discover and correct on their end, so those kind of bugs do not affect the OS, but still...

here is the link to the article I mentioned:

http://www.macworld.com/article/2837811/bugs-and-fixes-solving-a-yosemite-post-i nstall-disaster.html

Oct 28, 2014 8:42 AM in response to scottfcook

Just to be clear, are all you guys having this issue trying to point to an iPhoto album? What happens if you point to a folder full of images on your hard drive? Does that work, or does it still revert to NG?

Oct 28, 2014 8:51 AM in response to scottfcook

There is an iPhoto update in the App Store that seems to fix the issue. My screen saver has been working properly so far since the update.

Oct 28, 2014 8:56 AM in response to Vortec4800

I can confirm that this also happens when using a "personal" folder with images

Oct 28, 2014 8:58 AM in response to daemonlord

Okay, so that leads me to believe that this is an OS X issue, not an iPhoto issue.

Hopefully 10.10.1 will come out before long to fix the issue then.

Photo Screen Saver not functioning with Yosemite Upgrade