Screen Saver reverts to National Geographic

What has finally worked for me is to keep System Preference open. National Geographic has not appeared again since and it's been 3 or 4 weeks now. If I shut down the computer, NG pops up again but I just open System Preference, choose my photo library and as long as I don't shut down SP, it keeps my iPhoto Library as screensaver.

I have tried this. It seemed to solve it for a while, then the problem came back. I didn't find out why this keeps happening, but I did find a work-around until Apple figures it out.

Set the screensaver how you like it, then go to the com.apple.screensaver.plist file in the "By Host" folder as mentioned above. Get Info on the file, and LOCK it! Theoretically this should prevent any changes, and so far it seems to be working. Granted I only did this a day ago, but it was reverting pretty often before that and hasn't done so yet. In any case it's worth a shot.

On the downside, if you want to change your screensaver, you'll have to go back and unlock it. On the other hand, how often do you change your screensaver?

Driving me nuts... happens to me all the time..

Even when it works, the Shuffle pictures unchecks itself, so instead of randomness, i get pics from the same folder

APPLE, FIX THIS BUG!

We need a fix for idjits like me who don't know a plist from a sock.

This is one big P in the A.

David

Update:
It DID revert after a couple of days. So I tried something else... I reset my screensaver the way I like it, then I locked all THREE files that had "Screensaver" in their name, instead of just the one. So far, so good... It's not a fix, since you'd have to go back and unlock every time you want to change your screensaver, but at least it it's a workaround until they fix it.

Did not solve my problem. Followed all the steps, but on the third time the screen saver came on, it was back to Nat Geo.

Same here. *None* of these fixes works. In fact, I even found the folder with the National Geographic images and trashed it, but the 1-National Geographic keeps coming back. Apple has to come clean. Like Microsoft bundling its e-mail program a few years back (cause of a major legal problem), has Apple made a sweet deal with the National Geographic Corp to give them this preferred placement? Seems highly plausible: NG is not giving away its images for free. This preference is deeply embedded in Yosemite, and Apple has to now make a Microsoft-style fix and dis-bundle NG from its basic system software. Else wise, may we assume, a major lawsuit may be in the offing?

I have the same problem. None of the proposed solutions have worked. APPLE - fix this with an update, please!

I have found that if I repeatedly "hit" the screen saver (by going to the hot corner to activate it), it will eventually flip to the National Geographic. Haven't yet discovered a "magic number" of hits before it turn.

As for the monitors showing the same pic. Sometimes I get that too. But my monitors are different sizes, and eventually they fall out of sync when the larger monitor displays two pics and the smaller displays only one....

This minor problem is so damaging to Apple's brand as one is reminded of this bug all the time. I have had a CHAT with three of their people and the different solutions and work arounds only lasted for a short while before NatGeo reverted. What a disappointment! Find the solution Apple!

Boy am I glad I waited until after the holidays to try to deal with this problem. I think I'll wait a little longer.

I have now tried Luisco's solution of leaving open the system preferences on screen saver and so far it has worked!!

Hothamhugh

Linc Davis solution did not work for me. Sure it came up with my iPhoto folder the first time, but the next it reverted back to National Geographic as before. I also had the National Geographic come up on my Apple TV but set it again to the iPhoto folder in iCloud and appears to have remained set.

What is it about the later OS versions that is actually causing the problem?