Screen Saver doesn't use all Pictures

i am seeing the same issue even in the photos album selection. maybe there are 20 pics in an album, but in screensaver it only shows and uses 3 of them.

there is nothing wrong with using a folder as screen saver pictures, btw. there are good reasons to use this system. however the screensaver engine seems fussy about which it will use no mater how it is shown them.

currently looking into possible filtering issues like color space, size, etc

wizcreations wrote:

That is not an option for me. I just have Default Collections or Choose Folder...

What do you get with Choose Folder...?

I'd assume this is because I do not use the Photos app.

What do you use...?

Personally I migrated my iPhoto Library into Photos, but still use iPhoto. So now I can see and use either Library.

Hi, It's not clear to me how/if this issue was resolved. I have a similar question. I'm running El Capitan 10.11.4 and have a folder within the pictures folder that has about 1,700 jpegs of no greater than 2 mb each. I've chosen this folder as the 'source' with the 'classic' transition. I've chosen 'shuffle'. What I assumed I would have (which you have on Windows machines) is a random choice, without replacement, which means all photos should be available to be chosen, but some photos will show up frequently and others almost never with the others somewhere in-between. Instead, what I get is a subset of photos chosen that are repeated in sequence. If I interrupt the screen saver and then go back to it, I get a different, possibly random choice of photos from the full set, but it is still a subset of the whole. The size of the subsets vary. I noted subsets mostly of 30, but some as small as 15 and one as large as 133. So, it seems the algorithm is not a simple random choice from the full set. It seems silly as this would be a simple bit of code that a beginning programmer could put together. I wonder if there is a parameter setting that can be changed?

FWIW, as I mentioned before I don't have this problem. And apparently pinkstones doesn't either. I have approximately. 2900 images in my Photo library but I don't get a repeating subset. The only thing I can think of to try is rebuilding the spotlight index.

Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support

As far as this goes…

It is SSSOOOO wrong for a system where this is one of the major reasons people put all their photos in Photos.

I'm not sure about that. It would be the last reason for me. I don't normally use the photo screensavers.

wizcreations wrote:

I can already use "some of them" in the screen saver. The problem is that screen saver is ONLY using "some of them" when it should be using every photo in the folder I have selected.

Are you sure that "some of them" the ones your seeing are not already imported into Photos...?

My question is how do I make it the screen saver use all the photos instead of just a handful out of my selected photo?

Import the ones you want to use into the OS X Photos program.

If the screen saver programming in OS X simply can't utilize all the photos in the folder I have selected then this is a flaw of OS X more than my archaic photo management practices.

Not necessarily, OS X was built to work with and around those other App's that Apple has supplied for us to use.

In this case the answer is it can't be done and I accept with sadness that I will view the same 20 photos forever.

I don't understand your reluctance..? If you Import at least some (a folder or two) into the Photos program, then your screensaver would be awesome instead of boring.

Hi,

I recently upgraded to El Capitian - and moved my pics over to Photos as requested by the Capitan!

Now I cant select my photos for my screen saver. I can navigate to where the Photos (and old iPhoto) folders are but they're greyed out.

I keep them on a separate drive (ie not my system drive) but its internal in my mac.

Is there a problem in El Capitan with this or is there something I'm not doing correctly?

Thanks

JC

I updated El Capitano last week and can't use my Photos as Screen Saver. They had been working before the last update. Photos is greyed out so I don't get to choose it as an option. Is there a problem with the last upgrade?

Are the images you are trying to use in a series of folders, or just dumped in Pictures

When the screensaver starts it starts in the same place each time, usually in alphabetical or numerical order.

Try clicking the Shuffle Slide Order option.

Eau Rouge wrote:

Are the images you are trying to use in a series of folders, or just dumped in Pictures

When the screensaver starts it starts in the same place each time, usually in alphabetical or numerical order.

Try clicking the Shuffle Slide Order option.

Absolutely correct. You need to choose the shuffle option.

I think the Screensaver defaults to using the Photos Library that is on the El Capitan install drive.

So even though Photos is using a different Library on another drive Scrrensaver is looking for

a Photoslibrary on the El Capitan disc.

you can check your various libraries and their locations by pressing the option/alt key whilst starting Photos.

FWIW, if it is truly random then it wouldn't be "without replacement". It would be like saying, throw a coin 1000 times but make sure you don't throw 10 heads in a row.

There is no setting you can change.

whsettle wrote:

Yes, of course, my slip-up in writing. thanks

No Problem. This isn't really about Windows vs OSX. It's really about peoples' perception of randomness. Instead of pictures in a folder think about a deck of cards. If you shuffle the deck well and the Kings all end up together, most people would think "How strange". The reality is, the probability of all four Kings ending up together is exactly the same as them ending up in any particular positions. We just think it's odd becaue we recognize they are all Kings. However, if the three, seven, five and Jack of different suits ended up together, we would think nothing of it.

Which leads up to the last part. People think past events affect future events. So because the four Kings were together on the first shuffle, they can't be together on the next shuffle. That just isn't so, the probability is the same. and if the other sequence was together again, people wouldn't notice most likely.

I hope I explained that well. 😎

den.thed wrote:

I'm not knocking your picture system if it works for you. But if you want to use some or all of them for Screen Saver, then you will need to Import them into Photos.

I haven't felt the need to do that either. I have a subfolder within my Pictures folder that is just images I use as a screen saver. There's about 60 in there right now, and I haven't experienced what the OP is describing, so I'm not entirely sure not using Photos is the problem.