Mavericks Screen Saver

Since upgrading to Mavericks, my screen save freezes frequently. I use the album cover screen saver, and it just freezes with the screen full of album covers. No force quit, no keyboard or mouse interaction. I have to do a hardware shutdown and restart. This happened on occasion before the upgrade, but now it's happening about every other day. I've restarted my Mac more times in the past few weeks than I have in the past few years.

Jabaro,
Any luck sovling this?
I am using an older Samsung SyncMaster LCD display and the screen-saver forces it into an unreadable, unresolvable state, short of pulling the adaptor from my iMac, or a restart.
Michael.

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Howdy,
Sorry to bother you.
My computer: iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
It took me some time to upgrade to Mavericks, but I did it eventually.
After having some problems with Spotlight (which was infinite looping indexing... and I just had to turn if off from Terminal), I realized I was encountering another big problem to me since the installation of Mavericks.
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- 'Desktop and Screen Saver > Screen Saver' : it is set to 1 minute;
- 'Energy Saver > Computer Sleep' : it is set to 10 minutes;
- 'Energy Saver > Display Sleep' : it is set to 5 minutes;
- 'Energy Saver > Put hard disks to sleep when possible' : it is checked.
- 'Energy Saver > Wake for network access' : it was checked. I unchecked it. Nothing changes.
- 'Energy Saver > Start up automatically after a power failure' : it is unchecked.
- 'Energy Saver > Allow power button to put computer to sleep' : this option is absent from my System Preferences > Energy Saver, but I would like it.
So, before Mavericks, everything was working great.
Now, after 1 minute, or after 5 minutes, or after 10 minutes: it's all the same. Nothing is sleepy. Nothing is energy saving.
I did not change anything in my computer since I've updated to Mavericks. However, I changed Wi-Fi. Since it was the only new change, I've "played" with 'Energy Saver > Wake for network access'. When I opened my System Preferences, it was checked. I unchecked it. It did not change anything. I'm not sure what it's used for.
I would appreciate any advice to make it work as it used to.
Thanks for your time reading and typing your answer,
Have a good day,
Regards,

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Built into the Software now.
Do a backup.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Restart, open the application and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
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Welcome to the Support Communities! The article below will help you troubleshoot the issue you are having with your iMac. Unplugging all of your peripherals and restarting the computer is always a good first troubleshooting step after an update. If you've updated your iPhoto software, you may need to reset your screensaver settings in the System Preferences.
OS X Mavericks: If your Mac runs slowly
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13895
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
OS X Mavericks: Reset your computer’s PRAM
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph14222
Mac Basics: Using Screen Saver when your screen is idle
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2485
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2. Since upgrading to Mavericks my Apple menu bar at the top is no longer transparent and some times does load at start up. I do have it set to be transparent. If I click on a program on my dock, the menu bar will appear, but not transparent.
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To get your screen saver and sleep mode working again just follow these steps:
This is always due to a process keeping the system awake, but determining which is the challenge.
A first simple step is to create a new, temporary user account. Log out of yours and log into the temporary one. Determine if it sleeps then. If it does then you have a login item that is preventing sleep. System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items.
Whenever you suspect a problem related to power, including sleep, an SMC reset is also recommended.
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Check your Sharing preferences for anything that could permit an active network connection.
Energy Saver "Wake for network access" can prevent sleep, but unchecking it will prevent the ability to remotely access a sleeping Mac over a network.
A normally functioning Mac will sleep according to Energy Saver, but will wake periodically for network access, after which it will return to sleep according to the settings in Energy Saver.
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Unfinished print jobs will prevent sleep. If a print job is queued, but if the printer is off or the connection to it is lost, the Mac will stay awake forever waiting for the printer to return.
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Active Bluetooth devices will prevent sleep.
Active USB or Thunderbolt devices will prevent sleep. Disconnect them to help isolate the cause.
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Open Terminal and Activity Monitor. Both are in your Utilities folder. Leave them open.
Open System Preferences > Energy Saver, and set the Mac to sleep after the shortest possible idle time (one minute)
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pmset -g
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sleep 1 (sleep prevented by 360)
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In Activity Monitor, select Window > Activity Monitor, and select the CPU tab. Click on the column with the heading "PID" to sort processes by their process ID. Find the Process Name corresponding to the PID above.
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see this vid for what it looks like
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2940244/IMG_2921.MOV
-peter

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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
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