HT204379 language of screen saver

Is there a way to change the language for the Word of The Day screen saver?
I would like to change it to the language I am currently learning.

Click on the Options button in the system preferences where you select the Word of the Day for your screen saver.

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How to change the language in the word of the day screen saver?

Does anyone know how to actually get additional languages working with the Word of the Day screen saver in Mountain Lion?
I've got the other languages installed in the OS X dictionary app, but can't for the life of me figure out how to get this working for Word of the Day...

I don't think it's possible. Ask Apple to add this feature via
http://www.apple.com/feedback

HT204379 I have pointed to my pictures folder and all the pictures are 1mb in size with a lowest resolution 4416 × 3312. Why do I still get blury images in my shifting titles screen saver?

Hello,
I have just moved to mac and pointed my screen saver to my pictures folder and all the pictures are 1mb in size with a lowest resolution 4416 × 3312. Why do I still get blury images in my shifting titles screen saver?
Regards,
Jan

finally found it
http://lifehacker.com/5711409/how-to-search-for-hidden-packaged-and-system-files -in-os-x
need app find any file
link at bottam

HT204379 Why we can't use iPhoto pictures on screen saver anymore?

After years of using our personal pictures from iPhoto for our screen saver, our Mac won't let us choose iPhoto Library as our source for the screen saver anymore. Does anyone know why this happened? When I choose a folder, the iPhoto Library is dim and won't allow it as a selection. Photo Booth is an option, but not iPhoto Library. This has been our screen saver for years. I didn't change it and don't know why the change occurred. And now I can't figure out how to change it back.

iPhoto 9.4.3

HT204379 Why does my screen saver "zoom" in on photos from my iPhoto? Can I stop it from doing this?

I've recently moved up to Mtn Lion on a new MacBook Pro.
I finally figure out how to connect my iPhoto images with my screen saver (the way I alswyas did on previous Macs).
But the weird thing is that the Screen Saver zooms in on the photos! Sometime choosing a very uninteresting part of the photo to suddenly enlarge on my screen!
What gives with that? Can I stop it from doing this? It's like cropping my originals - many of which I have already cropped ...
Appreciate any help that you can give on this.

The only fix here is to find a third-party screen saver that supports the behavior you want. Apple has adjusted its screen saver options over the years, and the latest ones are what you see in the system preferences.
The only way to change these behaviors is to hack the screen savers. The effects descriptions and some of the behaviors have settings in this folder:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Slideshows.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Cont ent
There may be a way to modify one of those settings to prevent the zooming for the given set of screen savers (or at least one of them), but I would not recommend modifying these files arbitrarily as you might break something (or at least make sure you have a full and restorable backup you can access before doing so). There are a couple of known modifications to them that can adjust some behaviors, but image zooming isnt one I know of.

HT204379 Choose how long each screen saver slide shows for?

There used to be an option to choose how many seconds each "slide" would show in Screen Saver. I don't see that option in Mountain Lion, only how many minutes until Screen Saver comes on. Is there still any way to do that? My slides change more quickly than I want them to...

Thank you for the advice, but I think you misunderstood what I am trying to do. I know about Home Sharing and have set this up along with many of my photo albums. I can access them when my Apple TV is on.
I am trying to customize the screen saver for the Apple TV. When I go into settings - Screen Saver, I get a list including National Geographic, Flowers, etc. and also My ICloud. I choose My ICloud and it gives me two Options - Photo Streaming (which contains pictures taken in the last 30 days) and a second Option - Activity. I am guessing this would allow me to use specific photos. But it says "This album is empty." I would like to use about 30 - 40 photos as my screen saver but have no idea how to get them into that Activity album.
I created an Activity Album in IPhoto, filled it with the photos I want to use, then tried to share it to ICloud. The color wheel stays on for awhile which I thought was indicating the transfer. But I go back to Apple TV, turn it on, go to Settings - Screen Saver but it still shows Activity is empty.

HT204379 Is it possible to reset or delete the screen saver preferences for default?

When I go to change my screen saver preferences it asks me to log into my server before it shows me my photo options, I was wondering if there was a way to reset that so it didn't pop up each time I go to screen saver preferences.

Well that was my though as well and yet....hah.
In a single page multi-state environment you say I shouldn't be able to pull the page off the screen (and then have it snap back) vertically with "horizontal swipe only" checked off?
Anything funny with the preview viewer or anything?
/confused

HT204379 Screen saver reverts to NatGeo

My iMac screen saver intermittently reverts to Nat Geo as the source. Nothing done to provoke this behaviour which has happened several times now, at spasmodic intervals.
Any ideas?
Yet another Yose,its bug?
iMac running OS X 10.10.2

You are welcome. Neither of the 2 links I provided suggested a reload, unless I missed something.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
Feedback
Or you can use your Apple ID to register with this site and go the Apple BugReporter. Supposedly you will get an answer if you submit feedback.
Feedback via Apple Developer

HT204379 Is there any way the screen saver can recognize nested folders?

Since the last couple of updates to Mac OS, the screen saver function has regressed in features. I have not been able to get the program to recognize pictures in nested folders--something the program did without problem in earlier versions of the OS. This severely limits the slide show capability of the screen saver. Why would an OS update--an improvement, if you will--reduce significantly the functionality of a built-in feature?

Apple continues to cripple useful functions. All I can suggest is to File a bug report with Apple.

PowerMac G5 hangs after going into screen saver power save mode

I have a PowerMac G5 and it's been working fine, but as of late has been hanging. I had a couple of external disks on the machine ( Maxtor OneTouch II and a OneTouch III). I recently added two more OneTouch III and stripped the three OneTouch III's together in a RAID set. I'm wondering if that is causing the hangs, but I've also seen it hang without the RAID so I'm not convinced it's the RAID.
Anyway, I can't figure out what's causing it to hang, but it seems to hang at some point after the screen saver runs and then the screen goes into power saver mode. It's not hung right when it shuts down the monitor, but at some point after that.
When it gets in this mode, I can't remotely login using ssh and I can't seem to wake it up. What I end up having to do is to hold the power button down for several seconds until the machine powers off.
In an attempt to see what's going on, I set the OS X monitor power save mode to "never", but I don't think I left it that way long enough and I never saw it hang.
Does anyone have any debugging tips that would help me identify the culprit?

I've been having the same troubles lately. Seem
since the JAVA update. It hangs completely after the
screen is shut down. Every morning I have to reboot
with the power button.
I am also joining the crowd with this issue. I have a 15" Powerbook G4 that has acted normally until recently. Not sure exactly when it started, but about the same time as the recent updates. Similar behavior to the previous forum posts.
When I manually put the laptop to sleep it freezes up before it sleeps and the multi-language reboot warning comes up. This also happens if it is set to auto-sleep after xx minutes.
When I try to wake it up, the screen is black and the power light shows it is on and it never unfreezes or I get the reboot message.
I have tried everything I can think of to troubleshoot this. I just re-installed the 10.4.8 update over the exisiting one (using an external boot drive made with SuperDuper) and it still happens... BUT when I put the laptop to sleep with the startup drive being external, it seemed to behave properly. I can't figure this out since the external clone was made only minutes earlier from the laptop... and it works. I have zapped PRAM, and done the battery removal / power button reset.
Below is the "report" I have been getting - and sending to Apple. They must be getting tired of the many I have sent.
Any thoughts out there?
Thanks.
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x0000000000000020 PC=0x00000000002FA2A4
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
Exception state (sv=0x32E70000)
PC=0x002FA2A4; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x00000020; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x002E31B0; R1=0x1793BCD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x002E31B0 0x002AE920 0x002F2EF4 0x0003C884 0x000A9314
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x32E70000)
previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
Exception state (sv=0x2D24BC80)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0: Fri Sep 8 17:18:57 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
Backtrace:
0x00095138 0x00095650 0x00026898 0x000A7E04 0x000AB780
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x32E70000)
PC=0x002FA2A4; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x00000020; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x002E31B0; R1=0x1793BCD0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access)
Backtrace:
0x002E31B0 0x002AE920 0x002F2EF4 0x0003C884 0x000A9314
Exception state (sv=0x2D24BC80)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0: Fri Sep 8 17:18:57 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
Model: PowerBook5,8, BootROM 4.9.5f3, 1 processors, PowerPC G4 (1.5), 1.67 GHz, 1 GB
Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, ATY,RV360M11, AGP, 128 MB
Memory Module: SODIMM0/J20STANDARD, 1 GB, DDR2 SDRAM, PC2-4200S-444
AirPort: AirPort Extreme, 405.1 (3.90.34.0.p18)
Modem: Jump, , V.92, Version 1.0,
Bluetooth: Version 1.7.8f2, 2 service, 0 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Built-in Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
PCI Card: pci106b,4318, sppci_othernetwork, SLOT-A
PCI Card: TXN,PCIXXXX-00, cardbus, PC Card
PCI Card: usb, usb, USB20
PCI Card: usb, usb, USB20
PCI Card: usb, ehci, USB20
Parallel ATA Device: Hitachi HTS721010G9AT00, 93.16 GB
Parallel ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-846,
USB Device: Bluetooth HCI, , Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, Mitsumi Electric, Up to 1.5 Mb/sec, 500 mA
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, Apple Computer, Up to 12 Mb/sec, 500 mA
15" G4 PowerBook 1.67 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
G5 2.7 Gig Mac OS X (10.4.4) 3 Gig ram
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Scroll Bar missing on Safari web pages and unfamiliar screen saver image

I recently upgraded my OS X from Panther to Tiger v. 10.4.11 and upgraded to Safari 3.1.2. Now the scroll bar down the right side is missing from the open web page in Safari. Where did it go and how do I get it back?
Also, unfamiliar images appear, something like a screen saver when I leave my computer for a
few minutes without putting it to sleep or shutting it down. It's a black/white/gray portrait of
a woman and as the picture moves around the screen, the image magnifies. I have no idea
where this image came from nor how to get rid of it. Any ideas?

Hi Busy1, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it finishes.
The usual reason why updates fail or mess things up, or things don't load/run, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions.
Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!
If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates again, or even do an A&I if you have enough free disk space.
The combo update for PowerPC-based Macs...
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10411comboupdateppc.html
The combo update for Intel-based Macs...
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10411comboupdateintel.html
Repair Permissions after re-install, then reboot again.
If all the above do not resolve the problem, then it's time for an Archive & Install, which gives you a new OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Might try this for Scroll Bars...
http://lifehacker.com/5040043/add-double-scroll-arrows-to-both-ends-of-the-scrol l-bar
when I leave my computer for a
few minutes without putting it to sleep or shutting it down...
Check System Preferences>Desktop & Screen Saver>Screen saver Tab for that.

IMac G5 freezes or locks up in Screen Save Mode

After about 5 minutes in the screen saver mode my iMac G5 locks up and will not go to the password menu. The fans turn on the only way to get out of this is to power down. I have tried to force quit but the keyboard locks out too. I am running the Apple screen saver the beach scene one. The only thing I have changed is when the screen saver comes on. I have 95 gigs open on my hard drive too.
Any thoughts? Thanks

Hopefully all that you need is to perform disk repair (not permissions) using the Disk Utility version located on your grey-label Install Disc 1, once you have booted from that disc.
Insert the disc into your optical drive and immediately choose "Restart" from your blue apple menu. Upon hearing the startup chord, immediately press and hold the "c" key until you see the progress indicator. First install screen is language selection, second install screen at the top of the display you see pull-downs, one of which is Utilities. Select Disk Utility, from the drives listed on the left, choose the entire internal hard drive which should be the first listed. On the right verify you're on First Aid panel, then click "Repair Disk" button and allow to run until completion. Re-run if necessary until it reports "No repairs necessary"
Quit Disk Utility, Quit installation sequence, restart to usual startup disk.
Please note that your HDD is now over 80 percent full, and many believe that beyond that point you might start to see the iMac's operating efficiency steadily deteriorate. [click the iMac G5 link, search "swap space" or "defrag"] You might want to consider adding an external firewire/usb hard drive for additional storage, but certainly get something for backing up. There is probably a little on your current HDD that you would rather not lose:) This is the time to protect yourself.

MacBook Pro can't detect my projector. Only displays screen saver

Tried connecting Optoma projector to new Macbook Pro. However only the screen saver is being displayed. When I go to Preferences - Displays - just says that no device is detected and gives no options to change anything. Did not have this problem with previous MacBook. Please help.

Assuming the drive is not defective I would guess you didn't install it properly. Most likely the ribbon cable is not properly connected. You do know you must partition and format the drive? See the following:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger or Leopard.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (only required for Intel Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.

Laptop freezing when screen saver

Hi and thanks in advance for your time.
My laptop is freezing soon after the screen saver starts. In short, the sxreen saver continues but the mouse doesn't respond. I have no option but to force it to turn off using the turn on/off bottom.
I ran techtool pro and fixed permissions and rebuilt. Did not run disk warrior yet, waiting for update to arrive...
Any ideas, any advise, thanks

If it's one of Apple's preinstalled or a 3rd party screensaver, check to see if there is a plist file inside the ~/Library/Preferences folder and trash it. Restart your computer.
Boot from your install disc & run *Repair Disk* from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select Disk Utility.
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click First Aid.
Click Repair Disk.
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751

IPhoto library went to screen-saver

I was trying to add a photo to my screen saver. I got a message saying my thumbnails were outdated. I clicked to ignore the message and ---- everything vanished! At least they were not deleted. Instead, I found that all my photos had jumped from iPhoto folders or rolls to a new folder in my screen saver directory. They all seem to be there, but I can't figure out how to send them back to iPhoto! Any hints or suggestions?
Jay

Hi Jay, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Tiger Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it finishes.
The usual reason why updates fail or mess things up, or things don't load/run, is if Permissions are not fixed before & after every update, with a reboot... you may get a partial update when the installer finds it doesn't have Permissions to change one obscure little part of the OS, leaving you with a mix of OS versions.
Some people get away without Repairing Permissions for years, some for only days.
If Permissions are wrong before applying an update, you could get mixed OS versions, if Directory is the slightest messed up, who knows!
If many Permission are repaired, or any Directory errors are found, you may need to re-apply some the latest/biggest updates again, or even do an A&I if you have enough free disk space.
Where does that leave us now?

HT204379 language of screen saver

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