10.8.3 screen saver doesn't work on iPhoto library

All libraries are grayed out.

Appears that if I select the directory above the photo library, the screen saver shows photos from the library below. So this is a tentative fix. I will add further comment after more experience.

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Hi -
After upgrading to Leopard (from 10.4.11), the screen saver wouldn't work. When I go into System Preferences and select a screen saver, I get an alert that says:
"Can't Load Screen Saver. Screen saver “(name)” did not load properly. Please select another screen saver. Error: Can’t load bundle."
This happens for any of the screen savers I select. I'd appreciate any ideas as to how I can fix this. Thanks.
Shelly

There's another two files that we can try. I only gave you the simple top level plist file. There's two more if you were willing to give that a shot and see what happens.
Lets do this: go under your main hard drive name/library/prefereneces/systemconfiguration
We are going to trash 2 files. Leave them in the trash, but don't empty trash until after we have regenerated new ones to replace those.
1. com.apple.PowerManagement.plist.......Please delete this 1st and then retry your screen saver.
2. preferences.plist.......Please delete this if the top file did not work
Next, setup your machine preferences including your screen savers. Check to make sure the files have been regen'd.
Test the setup. I just re read your initial post and noted there was an error message with the bundle. I will bet that even after deleting those two files you will still have the same issue as it's not the plist files that are damaged but that the OS can't load the bundle for those screensavers due to file corruption. In that case, the only thing that will remedy that issue is reloading the bundle off the new Lep install disk.
I also note that you have been having other issues as well. Leopard over Tiger is a nightmare Shelly. It really is. I could not boot and it took me two days of trouble shooting it down to driver level to find the issue and resolve it. I fixed it though and now I can boot up all the time without a kernel panic but, it does take way too much time away from just using the machine. That's the real issue-time. Good luck.

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I already tried all options when starting iphoto with alt and cmd pressed - doesn't work
I restarted my mac - doesn't work
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It works well Windows 8.1, but why not in Windows 10?

Hi PriTeddy,
Thanks for your feedback.
As Paul Adare said, Microsoft has noticed such issue, they are listed in following blog:
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It probably means that some process is running in the background which is preventing the screen saver from kicking in, Paolo. You may be able to find out what it is using Activity Monitor.
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