Screensaver Issue & iPhoto '08 albums/events

I have been using iPhoto '08 and adding albums and events. When I go to change my desktop/screensaver only my desktop accurately reflects changes made to the iPhoto apps albums and events. The screensaver preference does not reflect any changes made to albums/events. I've tried quitting iPhoto, logging out and restarting. Is there a preference file somewhere that I need to delete so that the screensaver preference rebuilds itself? Thanks!

Well, I found this,"com.apple.desktop.plist", in the Home folder-Library-Preferences. You might try deleting that.
I'm not crazy about iphoto. I dropped something like fifty photos on the application icon and it gave me like 30 events. That looked real nice in the Desktop and Screensaver preference pane. Not.
The problem might be iPhoto, but I'd try deleting the Preference I listed first. Good luck.

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Let’s try and reset that sharing feature in iPhoto. TO do this we’ll need to move a file out of the Library and iPhoto will then be forced to re-create it.
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OK, sound right - thx Terence for your answer; but how does one flush the screensaver cache?
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If I knew the answer I would have given it - but since it is not an iPhoto question I suggested
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You don't have a problem at all.
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go to finder>all images
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I try to delete the extra copies
Then you are trashing your Library.
So, this is how iPhoto works, there is no problem and stay away from All Images.
Regards
TD

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Bruce Etnyre has a more permanent fix over on the Using 10.5 forum:
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The XXXXX before the .plist is a hexadecimal string.
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com.apple.screensaver.XXXXX.plist
com.apple.screensaver.slideshow.XXXXX.plist
and this one, if you have it:
com.apple.iphotomosaic.XXXXX.plist
The XXXXX before the .plist is a hexadecimal string.
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TD

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SMM

To move a Library:
To move an iPhoto Library to a new machine:
Link the two Macs together: there are several ways to do this: Wireless Network,Firewire Target Disk Mode, Ethernet, or even just copy the Library to an external HD and then on to the new machine...
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I have removed all the photos from the phone and started again, but they go back in the same order.
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I've spent the last couple of days reorganising my events after iphoto had created them from my existing library, I understand why iphoto has created the events the way it has done and although from now on new imports will be dealt with in an entirely intuitive way, reorganising old photo events will likely be a necessity for all of us.
I don't believe events are intended to replace albums although I do agree that events are potentially far more flexible than albums and many may get more benefit from using events instead of albums from now on as you suggest.
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In actual fact the reason the tv still only syncs with albums is that it would require an upgrade for itunes to enable the syncing of events. The possibility that this may happen still exists but all I am saying is that it's not a case of me not grasping the isea of events but rather that you haven't thought through the consequences of making events rather than albums the sync source for the tv because in my opinion it wouldn't work.

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