Reader Leigh MacKay finds that his iPhoto albums tend to dominate OS X’s screensaver. He writes:
I have a few screen savers in my collection (both free and purchased). I use iPhoto for photo management. OS X automatically includes iPhoto’s collection into the screen savers list. Because the collection is large, with many smart albums, the list in the System Preference pane is lengthy.When choosing “Use random screen saver” in the preference pane, the odds are stacked in favor of all the iPhoto albums. Only occasionally will any of the other screen savers run. Is there a way to eliminate iPhoto albums from the Screen Saver list?
Next, enable iCloud on your Mac, if it isn’t already enabled. You will need to sign in with your Apple ID. Once iCloud is set up, launch iPhoto. In the column on the left, you will see a ‘Photo Stream’ option. Select it and click the ‘Turn on Photo Stream’ button. Click the System Preferences icon on your dock, or select it from the Apple menu. Click on the Desktop & Screen Saver preferences. Select the Screen Saver tab and then choose from one of the photo-related screen savers like “Ken Burns” or “Classic.”.
Apr 03, 2016 The Mac’s built-in system panel allows you to set a photo library as the screen saver. That way you can gather all of your favourite photos in a photo library and then use it as the screen saver. Here’s how you can go about doing that. Setting a Photo Library as the Screen Saver. The desktop picture is controlled in the 'System Preferences' pane on your Mac. If you want to delete photos from Mac desktop without actually deleting them from iPhoto Library, then open 'System Preferences' on your Mac. Click 'Desktop and Screen Saver' button and then click 'Desktop' tab and then drag the new photo to the image of the desktop.
There is, but I wouldn’t have had a clue about how to go about it were it not for the work of some helpful folks on the Apple Discussion Forums. One gryphonent pulled the solution from elsewhere in the Forums (my apologies for not locating the original author—drop me a line if it’s you). His solution runs this way:
To disable the iPhoto screen saver from showing your albums try this:1.) Launch the Terminal application 2.) Type the following command (all on one line) and hit Return:
defaults delete com.apple.iApps iPhotoRecentDatabases ; chflags uchg ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iApps.plist
I have done this on my computer and have not noticed any ill effects from it. Essentially the command deletes the “iPhotoRecentDatabases” key from the “com.apple.iApps.plist” preference file and then locks the file so iPhoto can’t write back to it the next time you launch iPhoto.
If you do experience any strange behavior after trying this you can unlock the “com.apple.iApps.plist” file [found in the ~/Library/Preferences folder] in the Finder’s “Get Info” window or you can issue the following command in the Terminal application:
chflags nouchg ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iApps.plist
Note that should you wish to put thing back they were, you’ll need to launch iPhoto after entering the last-mentioned Terminal command for your iPhoto albums to appear in the screensaver list.
Apple has brought Photo Library with its latest OS X update 10.10.3. Unlike the iPhoto Library, Photos app has more user-friendly features to let you manage your photos in an all-new way. The best part is that the Photo Library is almost identical to that of iOS 8’s regarding functionality.
With the arrival of the new Photos app, iPhone Library doesn’t have much significance left with it. Moreover, it can no longer be even found in the Mac App Store.
In other words, Apple has decided to leave it behind to provide a more useful Photos app for users. If you have updated your Mac to OS X 10.10.3, you’d like to migrate all your photos from iPhoto Library to Photo Library. Here is the quickest way you can do so. Let’s take a look!
Note: Before going further, make sure to delete duplicate files and update any Metadata if you want in your iPhoto Library. Once you have pruned your iPhoto Library, close it out.
How to Transfer iPhoto Library to Photos App on Mac OS X Yosemite
Step #1. Click on Finder and Go to your Pictures folder.
Step #2. You’ll see Photos Library and iPhoto Library. Open Photos Library and make sure there is nothing inside. Now, delete the Photos Library as usually to prevent it from creating multiple files.
Step #3. Next up, open Photos app from the dock.
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Step #4. The menu would suggest that the system can’t find Photo Library. Ignore the suggestion and click on Open Other.
Step #5. Select iPhoto Library and then click on Choose Library.
Wait for a while until all your photos have been imported to the new Photos app.
That’s all! If you want to check out whether photos have been imported from iPhoto or not, launch Photos app and ensure it’s all done perfectly.
Iphoto Library Screensaver Mac Download
You can still use iPhoto Library but its data can’t be automatically stored in iCloud. If you click on it now, it tells you that all your Photos have been migrated to Photos app.
Iphoto Screensaver
You can remove iPhoto Library if you don’t find any significance in keeping it on your device. Though I am not going to get rid of it right now, I won’t keep it for far too long either. What do you think? Are you going to remove it soon?
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