Photo Screen Saver not functioning with Yosemite Upgrade

Today I upgraded to 10.10.1 from 10.9.5. And ended up having the same issue that was originally described here.

Now what? Apple, please fix it! Otherwise, I will interpret your silence to you going evil. This is what happens when a company makes too much money and forgets about its user base.

Also, when the screen saver works in preview, the pictures no longer stack on top of each other, like it used to. So, apple completely screwed up in this screen saver issue. Fix it apple!

I have no patience and time to deal with this issue. Very disappointed.

I am downgrading my 10.10.1 to 10.9.5.

Good luck to you all for finding a lasting solution to this problem.

soloman416

Apple is not here, just other end-users like yourself. If you need to make your point to Apple, use this link:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Thank you Allan Jones. I have provided my feedback to the link you provided.

I downgraded to 10.9.5 and am happy again. 🙂

As a temporary solution, I have found that if you minimize "system preferences" and leave it open, iPhoto continuously cycles on screen saver. No default to National Geographic pictures.

Minimize system preferences and your iPhotos will continually recycle on screen saver---a temporary solution but it seems to work.

I have a possible solution.

I have two (early 2008) Mac Pros and one Macbook Pro on Yosemite using (almost) the same iPhoto library (it’s copied to the other machines, not shared). On one Mac Pro, I keep having this issue, where at some point it switches over to the Nat Geo pictures. This machine is hardly ever turned off or restarted, it only sleeps.

The other machines have been fine—no issues (also only sleeps).

I have not tried deleting preference files to fix this issue.

On a whim, I rebuilt the iPhoto database completely on the offending machine. It’s been several days, and it’s been fine.

In the process of copying my iPhoto library, I’ve rebuilt the database on the machines that have been working, which is why I thought I’d try this.

To rebuild, hold down the Option and Command keys while starting iPhoto. At some point a dialog box called Photo Library First Aid will open up. I chose the last option, Rebuild Database. This can take a while, depending on the size of your iPhoto library. (Mine is 260 GB, and it took a while. I went to clean the basement, so I don’t know exactly how long it took.)

Using my iPhoto database as a screen saver is really important for me. I have a Mac Pro attached to my tv, and I use it as a giant picture frame of my “best of” family photos. It’s the easiest way to see from the thousands of family photos we have. A lot of times, we never go through all those photos we take if they’re on our computer.

From my experience, the problem has nothing to do with iPhoto libraries. My Mac Mini running Yosemite uses a DropBox folder for screen saver images... but it still reverts back to the National Geographic images after a random amount of time.

Leaving the Preferences window minimized seems to be an effective work-around for me, but it's a dumb solution to an annoying problem.

It’s also possible that there are multiple issues that cause this problem. I’m sorry that it may not solve your issue. It solved mine.

Mine would revert to Nat Geo after a few hours. It’s been several days, and now I have no issues. I’ve never had an issue with 2 other computers where I’ve done this same thing. Correlation is not causation, but I’m going to go with this voodoo for now.

Just for fun, you could try to do this to you iPhoto library, but still use the Dropbox folder. I can see an issue where Screen Saver looks to the iPhoto library (whether you use it or not) as part of its routine, and if there’s a problem, it immediately goes to a default folder. That’s why this could happen even with non-iPhoto folders.

In the spirit of experimentation, I think it’s worth a try. What do you have to lose?

I have a new problem - not defaulting to Natl Geo any more, but only giving me starbursts patter, with no option any longer to choose a folder or source. How do I go back to the earlier version of Yosemite??

I just installed OS 10.10.2, and the Screen Saver seems to be working ok now. Apple listens!

Hooray! But where did you find the upgrade? It's not showing as available on my system.

On my iMac running 10.10.1, I just opened Apple / App Store... / Updates.

I found the update and installed it (it hadn't been there a few hours ago). Unfortunately, it didn't solve the problem. I still only have the option get sunbursts as a screensaver, and no choice of any thing else. Any ideas out there???