Son has collection of .jpg images.
Wants to use them for screen saver and desktop background.
Can select directory that contains them in pref. pane desktop tab, and it works. Go to screen saver, and select "choose folder," and navigate to/select it. Message "selected folder contains no pictures." Move all picture files to /Users//Pictures and select that. Same message. Examine screensaver pref plist, and the path to the folder is correct. But message still says contains no pictures.
(Finder preview column in column view shows the images.)
Worked in 10.1.5 .....
Wes Groleau groleau+news@redacted.invalid writes:
Son has collection of .jpg images.
Wants to use them for screen saver and desktop background.
Can select directory that contains them in pref. pane desktop tab, and it works. Go to screen saver, and select "choose folder," and navigate to/select it. Message "selected folder contains no pictures."
Same problem here, it seems as though the silly thing can't recognize any graphics files. This wasn't fixed by the most recent update. Since there haven't been widespread complaints, I'm guessing there may be some system-specific issues. Mine is an iMac Rev B, 10.3.2. Yours?
Wes Groleau wrote:
Son has collection of .jpg images.
Wants to use them for screen saver and desktop background.
Can select directory that contains them in pref. pane desktop tab, and it works. Go to screen saver, and select "choose folder," and navigate to/select it. Message "selected folder contains no pictures." Move all picture files to /Users//Pictures and select that. Same message. Examine screensaver pref plist, and the path to the folder is correct. But message still says contains no pictures.
(Finder preview column in column view shows the images.)
Worked in 10.1.5 .....
How many pictures do you have? I seem to have issues when selecting a folder with a whole crap ton of images in it.
Also, it won't work if I choose a high-level directory...for example...
"Digicam Pix" won't work, but "Digicam Pix -> Christmas Pix -> Mexico 2003" WILL.
HTH, Adam
Tim McNamara wrote:
Same problem here, it seems as though the silly thing can't recognize any graphics files. This wasn't fixed by the most recent update. Since there haven't been widespread complaints, I'm guessing there may be some system-specific issues. Mine is an iMac Rev B, 10.3.2. Yours?
I never did figure out the A/B/C/D business. I have a slot-loader, no firewire, with: Machine Model: iMac CPU Type: PowerPC 750 (83.2) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 350 MHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 256 MB Bus Speed: 100 MHz Boot ROM Version: 4.19f1
But not recognizing a JPEG-formatted file must be a software issue, not hardware. Also it worked fine in 10.1.5 (in fact a lot of things that worked in 10.1.5 are broken in 10.3.2--fortunately most of them rather minor).
adam drew wrote:
How many pictures do you have? I seem to have issues when selecting a folder with a whole crap ton of images in it.
The same directory works OK for desktop background. Just fails for screensaver. Not very many pictures in it, maybe about twenty at the moment. But this boy seems determined to fill up his 500 MB quota as fast as he can. :-)
Also, it won't work if I choose a high-level directory...for example...
"Digicam Pix" won't work, but "Digicam Pix -> Christmas Pix -> Mexico 2003" WILL.
No, we selected a single bottom-level directory. IIRC, 10.1.5 was able to handle multiple directories inside a single parent. However, one bug I noticed with 10.1.5 screensaver slide show is that it always selected the first N image files in the alphabetic listing. N was somewhere around ten, IIRC. No other pictures ever showed on the screen.