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Help please. I keep having to go back into Screen Saver to reselect the iphoto album I want it to run. It works for a few cycles, or sometimes only once, then switches back to National Geographic slides. Grr.
iMac, MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5)
Back up all data. Quit System Preferences if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens (command-V), then press return. A folder should open. If it does, look for a file with a long name that begins "com.apple.screensaver". There may be several such files. Move them all to the Trash.
Log out or restart the computer. Test. If the problem is resolved, empty the Trash and recreate your settings in the Screen Saver tab.
Really glad I didn't bother to reinstall OS, on 2 computers. At this point, I guess it's just wait for an update fix
I deleted that national geographic folder and it doesn't help. Infact its worse. It just says no photos now as it still reverts to national geographic
I have also since tried what someone else recommended which was moving my prefered screen saver folder into macintosh HD > library > screen savers
This doesn't work either
update... So far so good it weirdly seemed to have started working. The only change I can see is I DIDN'T select 'shuffle slide order'. I am not going to reselect shuffle and report back here. Either way I think coping the pictures to Macintosh HD > Library > screensavers seem to do the trick so thanks
There are two locations. One is the Library (on your hard drive) and the other is in the System folder. Each contains a folder named Screen Savers, and each of those contain a folder called Default Collections. National Geographic (with a 1- before the name) is contained in each, along with 3 or 4 other collections of photos.
I have tried moving both Default folders to the desktop, after which Screen Saver reports "No Photos." I made an iPhotos alias and put that in a new Default folder to no avail. I even put a "1-" in front of the alias, but no luck.
No clue for a permanent answer. Bummer.
GaryAS wrote:
There are two locations. One is the Library (on your hard drive) and the other is in the System folder. Each contains a folder named Screen Savers, and each of those contain a folder called Default Collections. National Geographic (with a 1- before the name) is contained in each, along with 3 or 4 other collections of photos.
I have tried moving both Default folders to the desktop, after which Screen Saver reports "No Photos." I made an iPhotos alias and put that in a new Default folder to no avail. I even put a "1-" in front of the alias, but no luck.
No clue for a permanent answer. Bummer.
Yes I was in same situation. Move the folder with your screen saver into macintosh hd > Library > screensavers. and then reselect it in your sys prefs and wait. It didn't stick immediately but now I have my folder on shuffle all the time no more national geographic
UPDATE. Its the shuffle button that breaks it. You can't have your own folder of pictures and have the shuffle the button pressed. You have to play them in order
I tried this too and it failed after one day. I'm pretty upset about this as I bought my Mac to help me with my photography business. I'm generally VERY disappointed with iPhoto, and the screen saver bug is infuriating. Even a Dell will let you put your own photos up as a screen saver. Ridiculous. Just FIX IT! Please. 😠
Can you please clarify what information that needs to be selected, copied and pasted. It is not clear from your posting.
Thanks.
Here is a 1/2 fix
The NatGeo folder is in Library/Screen Savers/Default Collections
The folder is actually called 1-National Geographic thus when the screensaver reverts to the default folder it always chooses 1-National Geographic
The fix is to place an alias to the folder that has the pix you want to use in the Default Collections folder and put a * infant of the name so it is always first in the list
I still can't figure out how to make it stay on shuffle but at least I can use my pix folder instead of the default NatGeo
All of these fixes seem to work...for a short time.
Bottom line ...Apple needs to fix the problem ....... I've tried many of the fixes suggested .... eventually they don't work.
It's time for APPLE to fix this thing!!
We shouldn't have to jump through hoops!
I left Microsoft for Apple years ago because I thought they were superior. Now I'm not so sure.
I AM HAVING THE SAME ISSUE!!!
Wish Apple would fix this problem for good!!
BTW I feel like this is a recent issue, at least from the last few months...?
I never had this issue when I first got this Imac..
There are two similar threads going so I forgot to update this one.
The workaround is to copy your pictures or an alias to your pictures into the national geographic folder. Works find as doesn't shuffle image order button
I think I have finally fixed it, for my setup at least...
I have left the "1 National Geographic" folder in Default Collections in place, but I have deleted the Nat Geo photos within that folder and replaced them with my own set of pix. With each phase of deleting the Nat Geo pix and replacing them with my own selection, the computer prompted me to enter my admin password.
I tried all the other suggestions in this thread, but invariably the computer would default back to the Nat Geo set.
It now still defaults back to Nat Geo, but by replacing the contents of that folder, I think I have an acceptable "workaround" here. Hope this helps.
Screen saver problem. Yosemite
