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My wife is still using an ancient G4 desktop machine with a paltry 20GB hard drive. Our financial situation's a bit rough right now so instead of buying a new computer she just wants more room for her files. In order to give her (a LOT) more space, I purchased an inexpensive external Seagate.
We moved her Pictures and iTunes folders over to the external and everything looks just fine. Redirected iTunes and it sees and plays all music and podcasts, no problem. But when I redirected her screensaver slideshow to the Pictures folder on the Seagate, all we get is a black screen and the message "the selected folder contains no pictures."
The picture files ARE there and open with no problems in the Finder and in all sorts of applications including Preview and Graphic Converter. But the screensaver won't recognize any images there at all for some reason.
I trashed the screensaver preference file so that a new one was created but that hasn't fixed the issue. But moving some of the images back to her internal drive and selecting THAT folder results in those images being seen without complaints.
Is the screensaver incapable of recognizing picture folders on external volumes? I'm having trouble finding any information online that addresses this.
Thanks in advance,
Neal
We moved her Pictures and iTunes folders over to the external and everything looks just fine. Redirected iTunes and it sees and plays all music and podcasts, no problem. But when I redirected her screensaver slideshow to the Pictures folder on the Seagate, all we get is a black screen and the message "the selected folder contains no pictures."
The picture files ARE there and open with no problems in the Finder and in all sorts of applications including Preview and Graphic Converter. But the screensaver won't recognize any images there at all for some reason.
I trashed the screensaver preference file so that a new one was created but that hasn't fixed the issue. But moving some of the images back to her internal drive and selecting THAT folder results in those images being seen without complaints.
Is the screensaver incapable of recognizing picture folders on external volumes? I'm having trouble finding any information online that addresses this.
Thanks in advance,
Neal