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In the Desktop/Screen Saver screen, the drop down menu showing 'center/tile/fit to screen' etc. options has suddenly gone missing.
I'm running El Capitan on an iMac.
This happens in any account.
I don't have 'Change Picture' ticked.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Dave Roberts
OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
There is no such dropdown menu in El Capitan.
FWIW, you may wish to change your profile to show you are now running El Capitan rather than Yosemite.
Well, I'm afaid I have to contradict you, I had this dropdown menu available since I installed El Capitan in October last year and used it the day before yesterday. For some reason it is not there today, hence my post.
I'm running two installations of OSX on my Mac, the other being Snow Leopard in another partition but I haven't been doing anything strange in the El Capitan version.
I was hoping that someone might know how this problem could arise.
I will, thanks, I'm a newbie here and didn't know of the various options.
D_M_R wrote:
In the Desktop/Screen Saver screen, the drop down menu showing 'center/tile/fit to screen' etc. options has suddenly gone missing.
Yes I am running el cap.
I would first run the DiskUtility>First AID on your Disk.. If it needs repairs you may have to Boot into Recovery.
Recovery http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
If that does not sort it out, From Revovery I would try reinstalling the OSX
Thanks for the reply, i've just tried the first aid option but no joy.
Try running the Combo update on top of your existing El Cap This is known to resolve out varies problems such as yours.
Download OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 Combo Update
If that doe not sort it out Reboot into Recovery and Reinstall the OS X on top of your OS X. This will leave all user data untouched.
As always good to have a current backup plan in place.
Recovery http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
Thanks for all the replies. I've tried everything including a reinstall. but still have a problem.
After some playing around, I've discovered a peculiar situation.
When I choose a picture in any of the Apple directories, the dropdown menu vanishes.
If I choose a picture in any of the self included folders, the dropdown re-appears.
I guess that implies that some parameter is missing/incorrectly set/ in an OO applet, or some other such glitch is present. The odd thing is that a reinstall didn't cure the problem, which in turn implies that the problem lies in the pre-existing folder parameters/access data and not in the operating code.
Drop down menu missing for setting background picture on 'Desktop-Screen Saver' screen.
