I have a MacBook Pro running OSX Yosemite. I want to use the vintage photos screensaver to show pictures of my son. I’ve set up a “screensaver” album in iPhoto with all of the photos I want included. When I go into the screensaver dialog box, I can select this album for display and it works perfectly. However, every time my computer goes to sleep, the settings go back to the default National Geographic album. The polar bears and lady bugs are cute, but they don’t hold a candle to my adorable 10-month old with avocado all over his face. How can I get it to save my selected folder? I can’t find any options that might be relevant.
So, before your computer goes to sleep, the screensaver works, but after it wakes from sleep it’s wrong?
Don’t sweat it; OS X El Capitan is due out shortly.
Yep. Four times now, I’ve set the correct folder and it works fine. The screensaver has started multiple times and it’s always right. But if I leave the computer long enough for it to sleep or close the cover, when I open it, I’m back to polar bears.
Sounds like the preference file isn’t being saved, most likely due to a permissions issue.
It might be worth a look in the Console to see if any errors are being logged.
FWIW, I use a folder of my photos for my screensaver on two Yosemite machines with no problems.
I just reset the desired library, then looked at the messages in Console. The two I’ve copied below look suspicious:
9/23/15 11:22:17.411 PM mdworker[29297]: code validation failed in the process of getting signing information: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-67062 “The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -67062.)”
9/23/15 11:22:45.347 PM CoreServicesUIAgent[28602]: unexpected message <OS_xpc_error: <error: 0x7fff7368fc60> { count = 1, contents =
“XPCErrorDescription” => <string: 0x7fff7368ff70> { length = 18, contents = “Connection invalid” }
}>
Could this be the problem? If so, any ideas how to fix it? Keep in mind, I’m not computer illiterate, but I’m also not an IT person.
The first one is from Spotlight, so that’s probably not it.
I don’t think it’s the second one either:
If you can find the correct plist file for the screensaver, delete it, and see if that helps.
I have the exact same problem- going from pictures of my holidays to National Geographic repeatedly. I gave up on it. What it looked like happened was that if the picture library was not quickly uploaded, it defaulted back to the NatGeo. In testing on two computers (Mac mini and high end laptop), I could get them both to keep the screen saver with my images if I had Photos (application) running and nothing else. If I didn’t have Photos open and/or was running progressively larger memory load Applications+Files I got the reversion to the NatGeo. So I think it is simply a memory or disk access problem and thus a “speed” that causes the reversion.
One thing you might try is making the folder of images all low resolution and then selecting it. This might help make the startup load decrease.