Photos do not work in screen saver in preferences

With upgrade to 10.10.3 and integration from iPhoto to Photos, my screen saver in preferences cannot access my photos. Any ideas?

Mine started working after a while.  I'm not sure how long it took but probably a couple hours.  I was getting organized to set up a folder with the pictures I wanted in the screen saver when I clicked on the menu in the system preferences and was very surprised to options to pick photos from Photos.
Later, I was disappointed to see the list of albums was out of date; the new screen saver album wasn't there.  I decided to try quitting system preferences and starting it up again and that worked.  When I checked the list of albums available in the screen saver menu, it had updated and I was able to select the folder I wanted.

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