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On iMac with Yosemite, my screensaver has lost the option to use photos. Where there should be an option to select a photos folder there is only a bar 'Screen Saver Options' i.e. Color, speed etc of the cg saver options which are still available. If I try to select a photo option e.g. 'Photo Mobile' I get an endless rotating color disk. Aug 25, 2017 Here's How: 1. Do step 2 (add) or step 3 (remove) below for what you want. To Add Pictures library. NOTE: This is the default setting. A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the.reg file below, and go to step 4 below. Screen Saver Gallery. Enjoy a constant stream of the most highly rated and beautiful photos from around the world. Each photo transitions smoothly to the next and photos are updated weekly to keep them fresh. Optimized to be easy to use and work like a charm on PC and Xbox. Set photos as your lock screen, wallpaper, download to your computer. Feb 10, 2014 Click on screensaver at the right hand side bottom. Under Screen saver select Photo gallery. Click on the Settings button next to drop down menu. Select use photos and videos from: and Browse the folder location which you want to set as the Screen saver. Check the box for Shuffle Contents (To shuffle the pictures on the screen saver).

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You may have upgraded your Mac from macOS 10.15 Catalina to macOS 11 Big Sur, or finally decide to update from a previous version (such as Mojave, or High Sierra) to Catalina, especially when both Big Sur and Catalina offer awesome features and increased performance.

However, unexpected errors may occur after Big Sur or Catalina update, the commonest one is that your photos in iPhoto or Photos app lost/disappeared from MacBook, or photos missing because the originals cannot be found on your Mac. Don’t be panic, we have 4 solutions for you to recover your lost photos or disappeared even missing Mac photos and photo albums.

Before Recovery, Check Your Pictures Folder First

People are accustomed to updating Mac to a new system by clicking on the 'Update All' option in the App Store, which will also automatically update other apps like Photos. In a sudden, you noticed that the photos lost or disappeared from your mac, but in fact, they are not gone. So, before any steps for photo recovery on mac, you should check your pictures folder to make sure if your photos are still there. Just click on Apple Menu>Go>Go to Folder>Input “~/Pictures/”>Go, check the Pictures folder or other folders you may use to save photos on your mac.

Fast Way to Recover Lost Photos on Mac After Update

The fastest and most straightforward way to recover lost or disappeared photos on Mac after update is using a piece of data recovery tool, it saves your time and even brings some valuable data back to your MacBook Pro or Air. Cisdem Data Recovery for Mac— the best method for recovering lost images, videos, songs, etc. from both the internal Mac hard drive and external storage devices. It supports an extensive number of formats and drive types. If your pictures missing after upgrade to Big Sur or Catalina in the absence of a time machine backup, you can recover them using this software.

Why Cisdem Data Recovery for Mac?

• Restore files lost due to deletion, formatting, system crash, power off
• Recover data from both internal and external hard drive
• 5 scanning modes: Basic, Trash, Formatted Drive, External Devices, Advanced
• Restore 200+ file formats: video, audio, image, document, etc.
• Preview files before recovery
• High recovery rate

Easy Steps to Recover Lost Photos on Mac After OS Update

Step 1Install the program

Download and install the free trial of Cisdem Photo Recovery on your Mac, and then run it.

Step 2Choose a recovery solution for lost photos

There are 5 recovery solutions. Choose one of them that suite your needs. I recommend Basic Data Recovery mode (fast and effective but not detect all the items) or Advanced Data Recovery mode (deeply scan your drive but take longer time).

Step 3Select the hard disk drive

Choose the drive from where you want to recover lost or deleted photos after macOS Big Sur or Catalina update and click Scan button at the top right.

Step 4Waiting for scanning lost photos on mac

Cisdem Photo Recovery for Mac will start scanning for the recoverable files, and sort it by file types, Meanwhile, the scanning results will be presented in the right panel in real-time.

Step 5Preview and recover lost photos on mac

Preview the scanning results, choose photos we want to recover, and then click 'Recover'.

With this, the procedure to recover lost images after upgrading to macOS Big Sur or Catalina is completed successfully.

Recover Lost Photos after Mac Update from Recently Deleted

If your Mac photos albums disappeared after macOS Big Sur or Catalina update, have a look at the 'Recently Deleted' album in Photos or iPhoto app.

1. Open Photos or iPhoto app.
2. Click the “Recently Deleted” tab from the left side.
3. Choose the thumbnails of your lost photos.
4. Click on the “Recover” button on the upper-right corner to restore missing files after Mac update.

Matters need attention:

• The photos items in the “Recently Deleted” album only give you 30-day grace period before getting rid of them to the ground.
• Enable iCloud and get your photos backed up on iCloud as well.

Recover Photos Disappeared from Mac via Photo Library Repair

Photo library is the database where all photo files, thumbnails, metadata info, etc. stored. If you find the library folder but see no photos in it, then it may get corrupted. But luckily, both iPhoto and Photos app allow users to Repair your photo library when photos or photo albums lost for no reason, become unreadable or just missing.

1. Before doing Library First Aid, it's always a good idea to backup your hard drive firstly with either Time Machine or another method;

2. You may need to wait a few minutes or several hours for Photos to fix. In my case, while doing Library First Aid I can still use my Mac though it is a little sluggish during the process.

#1 Restore iPhoto Pictures Disappeared after Mac Upgrade

1. First, turn on iPhoto’s “First Aid” mode. Before opening iPhoto app, hold down the Option and Command keys on your keyboard. Then launch Photos (need to press the two keys at the same time).
2. In a few seconds, you will see a window like below, choose one basing on following knowledge.

   Repair Permissions---This is probably the best option to start with. If you lost photos after updating Mac to Catalina, Repair Permissions mode may fix the problem. And, in my case, my lost Photos came back to life after the “Repair Database” step.

   Rebuild Thumbnails---Resolve an issue where the thumbnail image disappears or is corrupted. It will help you get back those images again.

   Repair Database---If your photos stored in another folder or corrupted, you can choose this option to repair your Photos library accordingly.

   Rebuild Database---If nothing else works, try Rebuild Database mode out. It may take a long time, as it will completely rebuild your database, overwriting the existing one.

#2 Restore Photo Pictures Disappeared after Mac Upgrade

1. Quit Photos app if it’s launched.
2. Press the keys- Option and Command while you re-open Photos.
3. In the pop-up Repair Library dialog, click on “Repair” to recover lost photos on mac after update. (Account and password may be needed for authorizing the Library Repair.)
4. Wait for the Repair process to finish, then your photo library will be opened automatically and now you can check your photos.

The process might stop syncing photos with iCloud. So it’d better to check it by navigating to Photos > Preferences > iCloud once the process is finished.

Restore Photos after Mac Update with Time Machine

Still not able to recover iPhoto or Photo library after Big Sur or Catalina within the app, now take a crack at Time Machine restore, if you have enabled and set up the Time Machine backup.

How to Recover Lost Photos on Mac after Update with Time Machine

1. If the iPhoto or Photos is open, choose iPhoto/ Photos > Quit Photos.
2. Click Apple menu > choose System Preferences and > click on Time Machine.
3. In the Time Machine menu, select Enter Time Machine, and it will take you to Time Machine on Mac.
4. Time Machine will show you all available backups. Click the date of your last backup and select the lost photos that you want to restore and you can also press the space bar to preview the photo.
5. Click the Restore button and the image file will be restored to the original location on Mac. Depending on the size of your file, it may take some time for your library to be restored.

Restore Missing Photos after Mac Update to Big Sur or Catalina

Sometimes, we don't get a correct setting for our Photos app, like we leave “Copy items to the Photo library” unchecked, so when we view our photos in Photos but later moved the photos to an external hard drive after Mac update, once we want to check the photos again, they became “missing” on your Mac since the original ones are not found. In this case, we need to restore these missing photos by Consolidate.

1. Launch Photos app, go to Preferences>General, check the box before “Copy items to the Photos library”;
2. Click on one of the “missing” photos, and continue with Find Original;
3. Then navigate to the drive or folder where you stored the original photos;
4. Then select all these original photos, go to File>Consolidate, now all the photos won't be referenced and saved in an external hard drive, they are moved to your photo library.

Final Words

Photos sometimes mean the whole world to us and we can’t afford to lose them. But chances are that they can be deleted or missing during the process of Mac upgrading. So, It is necessary to back up the entire Mac drive before upgrading to Big Sur or Catalina. You can back up them to multiple devices or using cloud service such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.

Once data loss occurs, just stay calm, and follow the methods above to recover lost photos on Mac after update. The most helpful and all-in-one solution I think is to install a Mac photo recovery software or service.

The Microsoft Win32 API supports special applications called screen savers. Screen savers start when the mouse and keyboard have been idle for a specified period of time. They are used for these two reasons:

• To protect a screen from phosphor burn caused by static images.
• To conceal sensitive information left on a screen.

This topic is divided into the following sections.

• Using the Screen Saver Functions

About Screen Savers

The Desktop application in the Windows Control Panel lets users select from a list of screen savers, specify how much time should elapse before the screen saver starts, configure screen savers, and preview screen savers. Screen savers are loaded automatically when Windows starts or when a user activates the screen saver through the Control Panel.

Once a screen saver is chosen, Windows monitors keystrokes and mouse movements and then starts the screen saver after a period of inactivity. However, Windows does not start the screen saver if any of the following conditions exist:

• The active application is not a Windows-based application.
• A computer-based training (CBT) window is present.
• The active application receives the WM_SYSCOMMAND message with the wParam parameter set to the SC_SCREENSAVE value, but it does not pass the message to the DefWindowProc function.

Security Context of the Screen Saver

The security context of the screen saver is dependent on whether a user is interactively logged on. If a user is interactively logged on when the screen saver is invoked, the screen saver runs in the security context of the interactive user. If no user is logged on, the security context of the screen saver is dependent on the version of Windows being used.

• Windows XP and Windows 2000 - screen saver runs in the context of LocalSystem with accounts restricted.
• Windows 2003 - screen saver runs in the context of LocalService with all privileges removed and administrators group disabled.
• Does not apply to Windows NT4.

The security context determines the level of privileged operations which can be done from a screen saver.

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Windows Vista and later: If password protection is enabled by policy, the screen saver is started regardless of what an application does with the SC_SCREENSAVE notification.

Screen savers contain specific exported functions, resource definitions, and variable declarations. The screen saver library contains the main function and other startup code required for a screen saver. When a screen saver starts, the startup code in the screen saver library creates a full-screen window. The window class for this window is declared as follows:

To create a screen saver, most developers create a source code module containing three required functions and link them with the screen saver library. A screen saver module is responsible only for configuring itself and for providing visual effects.

One of the three required functions in a screen saver module is ScreenSaverProc. This function processes specific messages and passes any unprocessed messages back to the screen saver library. Following are some of the typical messages processed by ScreenSaverProc.

ScreenSaverProc passes unprocessed messages to the screen saver library by calling the DefScreenSaverProc function. The following table describes how this function processes various messages.

The second required function in a screen saver module is ScreenSaverConfigureDialog. This function displays a dialog box that enables the user to configure the screen saver (an application must provide a corresponding dialog box template). Windows displays the configuration dialog box when the user selects the Setup button in the Control Panel's Screen Saver dialog box.

The third required function in a screen saver module is RegisterDialogClasses. This function must be called by all screen saver applications. However, applications that do not require special windows or custom controls in the configuration dialog box can simply return TRUE. Applications requiring special windows or custom controls should use this function to register the corresponding window classes.

In addition to creating a module that supports the three functions just described, a screen saver should supply an icon. This icon is visible only when the screen saver is run as a standalone application. (To be run by the Control Panel, a screen saver must have the .scr file name extension; to be run as a standalone application, it must have the .exe file name extension.) The icon must be identified in the screen saver's resource file by the constant ID_APP, which is defined in the Scrnsave.h header file.

One final requirement is a screen saver description string. The resource file for a screen saver must contain a string that the Control Panel displays as the screen saver name. The description string must be the first string in the resource file's string table (identified with the ordinal value 1). However, the description string is ignored by the Control Panel if the screen saver has a long filename. In such case, the filename will be used as the description string.

Using the Screen Saver Functions

This section uses example code taken from a screen saver application to illustrate the following tasks:

Creating a Screen Saver

At intervals ranging from 1 through 10 seconds, the application in this example repaints the screen with one of four colors: white, light gray, dark gray, and black. The application paints the screen each time it receives a WM_TIMER message. The user can adjust the interval at which this message is sent by selecting the application's configuration dialog box and adjusting a single horizontal scroll bar.

Screen saver library

The static screen saver functions are contained in the screen saver library. There are two versions of the library available, Scrnsave.lib and Scrnsavw.lib. You must link your project with one of these. Scrnsave.lib is used for screen savers that use ANSI characters, and Scrnsavw.lib is used for screen savers that use Unicode characters. A screen saver that is linked with Scrnsavw.lib will only run on Windows platforms that support Unicode, while a screen saver linked with Scrnsave.lib will run on any Windows platform.

Supporting the configuration dialog box

Most screen savers provide a configuration dialog box to let the user specify customization data such as unique colors, drawing speeds, line thickness, fonts, and so on. To support the configuration dialog box, the application must provide a dialog box template and must also support the ScreenSaverConfigureDialog function. Following is the dialog box template for the sample application.

You must define the constant used to identify the dialog box template by using the decimal value 2003, as in the following example:

The following example shows the ScreenSaverConfigureDialog function found in the sample application.

In addition to providing the dialog box template and supporting the ScreenSaverConfigureDialog function, an application must also support the RegisterDialogClasses function. This function registers any nonstandard window classes required by the screen saver. Because the sample application used only standard window classes in its dialog box procedure, this function simply returns TRUE, as in the following example:

Supporting the screen saver window procedure

Each screen saver must support a window procedure named ScreenSaverProc. Like most window procedures, ScreenSaverProc processes a set of specific messages and passes any unprocessed messages to a default procedure. However, instead of passing them to the DefWindowProc function, ScreenSaverProc passes unprocessed messages to the DefScreenSaverProc function. Another difference between ScreenSaverProc and a normal window procedure is that the handle passed to ScreenSaverProc identifies the entire desktop rather than a client window. The following example shows the ScreenSaverProc window procedure for the sample screen saver.

Creating a module-definition file

The ScreenSaverProc and ScreenSaverConfigureDialog functions must be exported in the application's module-definition file; RegisterDialogClasses should not be exported, however. The following example shows the module-definition file for the sample application.

Installing New Screen Savers

When compiling the list of available screen savers, the Control Panel searches the Windows Startup directory for files with the .scr extension. Because screen savers are standard Windows executable files with .exe extensions, you must rename them so they have .scr extensions and copy them to the correct directory.

Adding Help to the Screen Saver Configuration Dialog Box

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The configuration dialog box for a screen saver typically includes a Help button. Screen saver applications can check for the Help button identifier and call the WinHelp function in the same way Help is provided in other Windows-based applications.