If I interrupt the screen saver and then go back to it, I get a different, possibly random choice of photos from the full set, but it is still a subset of the whole. Instead, what I get is a subset of photos chosen that are repeated in sequence. What I assumed I would have (which you have on Windows machines) is a random choice, without replacement, which means all photos should be available to be chosen, but some photos will show up frequently and others almost never with the others somewhere in-between. I've chosen this folder as the 'source' with the 'classic' transition. I'm running El Capitan 10.11.4 and have a folder within the pictures folder that has about 1,700 jpegs of no greater than 2 mb each. Hi, It's not clear to me how/if this issue was resolved. I don't understand your reluctance.? If you Import at least some (a folder or two) into the Photos program, then your screensaver would be awesome instead of boring. In this case the answer is it can't be done and I accept with sadness that I will view the same 20 photos forever. Not necessarily, OS X was built to work with and around those other App's that Apple has supplied for us to use. If the screen saver programming in OS X simply can't utilize all the photos in the folder I have selected then this is a flaw of OS X more than my archaic photo management practices.

Import the ones you want to use into the OS X Photos program. My question is how do I make it the screen saver use all the photos instead of just a handful out of my selected photo? The problem is that screen saver is ONLY using 'some of them' when it should be using every photo in the folder I have selected.Īre you sure that 'some of them' the ones your seeing are not already imported into Photos.? I can already use 'some of them' in the screen saver. I wonder if there is a parameter setting that can be changed? It seems silly as this would be a simple bit of code that a beginning programmer could put together. So, it seems the algorithm is not a simple random choice from the full set. I noted subsets mostly of 30, but some as small as 15 and one as large as 133.

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