Screensaver defaults on its own, help?

I set my screensaver to show photos from a folder on my desktop, but when I wake my computer up after one cycle, it defaults back to the National Geographic photos. How do I stop that from happening?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jun 9, 2015 12:29 PM

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Jun 9, 2015 12:53 PM in response to Dino.and.TheKid

You could try 'repair disk permissions' in Disk Utility, on the boot volume

that does not have the hard drive brand on it, re: Macintosh HD.


•About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature - Apple Support


Sometimes, a start-up in Safe mode followed by the repair disk permission

in Disk Utility can help with some kinds of user issues. Also, there may be

a pile of Console logs in the OS X from that incident, though they are hard

to understand like a foreign language, and may cause undo anxiety.


•Try safe mode if your Mac doesn't finish starting up - Apple Support


Or if you have more than one user account, try starting in the second user.


Then, login or restart in the main user. - And if you have your own images

for desktop background in the computer, try them, too. You can direct the

System Preference> Desktop/Screensaver to select from almost any folder.

My image folders are not stored in or on Desktop in any of my user accounts.


In any event...

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

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