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SaveHollywood Screen Saver
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Catalina macOS 10.15 doesn't work #11

Open Ge0rges opened 5 years ago

Ge0rges commented 5 years ago

After dragging in a file, the screen saver keeps showing "no videos". Any work around?

moe-hh commented 3 years ago

Thanks a lot, MDanihy for your instant help! I found the folder, created the SaveHollywood folder, copied a video into it, but now where can I drag and drop it? The SaveHollywood tab in the ScreenSaver selection in Preferences is there, but the screensaver-options button is greyed out. If I just drag the video to the preview window, it's still not accepted.

MDanihy commented 3 years ago

Have you rebooted since installing the screensaver, I know it shouldn't matter but it doesn't hurt to try.

moe-hh commented 3 years ago

Yes, I have, but this hasn't changed anything. The options button is not greyed out on your computer under Big Sur? BTW, the folder in Containers is not called legacyScreenSaver, but legacyScreenSaver-x86_64 on my Mac. Don't know if this makes any difference.

MDanihy commented 3 years ago

It is not, but my computer was upgraded to Big Sur from Catalina, so I do not know if that has anything to do with it. Save Hollywood has been on my computer through serveral OS versions.

Does your computer have the new chip?

moe-hh commented 3 years ago

Yes, M1.

MDanihy commented 3 years ago

That may be the issue, I would have to defer to someone with the new M1 chip. My computer has an Intel, you have the x86_64 designation on the folder because of the M1.

moe-hh commented 3 years ago

Yeah, that's what I thought. Thanks so much anyway for your support, MDanihy! Maybe someone with an M1 can help out. I need the video as screen saver functionality of SaveHollywood for an art installation, so it's kinda pressing...

MDanihy commented 3 years ago

No problem, hopefully someone will chime in and say yay or nay on SH running on an M1.

MDanihy commented 3 years ago

One thing you could try is right-click on the SaveHollywood image in Screensavers and open the finder destination. Check the info of the file and see if it lets you open in Rsetta. I doubt the option will be there, but it is one last thing you can check.

moe-hh commented 3 years ago

MDanihy, you are a genius!!! There was no Rosetta option, but then I installed Rosetta 2, and now it runs!!! Thank you so much for your help, this made my day (well, in fact it's 4:30 a.m. over here) :-) !!! 🙏🏻

actdjohng commented 3 years ago

Having same problem on MacBook Air Big Sur OS. I just moved my videos to OneDrive, and added the directory to the savehollywood screensaver config, and worked as it did in Catalina OS.

rrrossettiii commented 3 years ago

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but in case it hasn't. Place your videos in Users/shared and (+) them from there (works for me on 11.4)

This is what Aerial Screensaver also requires to work.

MDanihy commented 3 years ago

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but in case it hasn't. Place your videos in Users/shared and (+) them from there (works for me on 11.4)

This is what Aerial Screensaver also requires to work.

Nice find, I will have to try it in Big Sur when I get home.

strausshouse commented 2 years ago

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but in case it hasn't. Place your videos in Users/shared and (+) them from there (works for me on 11.4)

This is what Aerial Screensaver also requires to work.

This worked for me

designium commented 2 years ago

Just installed it and use the workaround above for macOS Monterey and it works.

adam-electric commented 2 years ago

One thing you could try is right-click on the SaveHollywood image in Screensavers and open the finder destination. Check the info of the file and see if it lets you open in Rsetta. I doubt the option will be there, but it is one last thing you can check.

Hi i am having the same issue as "MOE-HH" same exact issue just that i dont know what you guys mean by the "rosetta" then "rosetta 2" i am completely lost right there. I got thrown off completely i really need help on this, i use to have a 2019 intel based macbook air and everything worked fine but now i have a "mac mini m1" so i am very confused with the folders and how things are changed too. please help :(

le0-VV commented 2 years ago

Hi i am having the same issue as "MOE-HH" same exact issue just that i dont know what you guys mean by the "rosetta" then "rosetta 2" i am completely lost right there. I got thrown off completely i really need help on this, i use to have a 2019 intel based macbook air and everything worked fine but now i have a "mac mini m1" so i am very confused with the folders and how things are changed too. please help :(

Man, this thread is so old I just deleted savehollywood on my Mac and reinstalled it to know how to help you. I'm running an M1 Mac on the latest macOS, and this screensaver works straight out of the box now, no big issues as far as I'm concerned.

What I do is I made a folder under the user home directory which is "/Users/YourUserName/", I dump the videos I want savehollywood to have access to in there. And whenever I want to change the videos I go to System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> Screen Saver -> SaveHollywood -> Screen Saver Options, go to near top of the window and you should see a button with a "+" sign, that allows you to manually add the videos to the screen saver and use it. Click it and it opens a window allowing you to choose files. I'd then go to my folders where I saved my screensaver videos, choose the video you want and done. Works with no problem.

FYI "Rosetta 2" is a piece of software that "translates" software code made for Intel/AMD chips with x86 architecture, to run on Apple's chips with ARM64 architecture. It's like a charger head that allows you to plug an American power plug into a British socket, and it does only that, nothing else. From what I know it runs entirely in the background automatically when you run software made for x86 chips. Its a "2" because Apple made a previous Rosetta for when they were changing from IBM's PowerPC chips to Intel's chips. Read more here (warning: lots of fancy words): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)#Rosetta_2

tvbeeker commented 1 year ago

/Users/shared is a folder owned by the user root (the account that runs the operating system itself). I think this means that SaveHollywood could access any folder owned by root. You need to be logged in to an admin account to change the ownership of your video folder. Open the Terminal app and use the "cd" command to change to the directory that your it's in. For example, if it's a folder called videos in the root of a second drive called Media, type the command cd /Volumes/Media then the command sudo chown root:wheel videos (you'll be prompted for your password at this point). You might also need to add more permissions to read and write files there: sudo chmod oug+rw videos. Disclaimer: This leaves your videos without any security... it's disabling the protections Apple was trying to add by "sandboxing" the screen saver, so... this is At Your Own Risk.

adam-electric commented 6 months ago

waaaah does it work the same way with m2? i just got an m2 and m3 waah  :(

le0-VV commented 6 months ago

AFAIK it should still work the same way. Someone close this thread, I don't think its an issue anymore

adam-electric commented 6 months ago

@le0-VV :(((

=,(

le0-VV commented 6 months ago

@le0-VV :(((

=,(

wdym? I said it shouldn't be an issue anymore

adam-electric commented 6 months ago

@le0-VV well i have sonoma and im on 14.3.1 and my computer is not running the screensaver... CRY CRY =,(

le0-VV commented 6 months ago

Hi i am having the same issue as "MOE-HH" same exact issue just that i dont know what you guys mean by the "rosetta" then "rosetta 2" i am completely lost right there. I got thrown off completely i really need help on this, i use to have a 2019 intel based macbook air and everything worked fine but now i have a "mac mini m1" so i am very confused with the folders and how things are changed too. please help :(

Man, this thread is so old I just deleted savehollywood on my Mac and reinstalled it to know how to help you. I'm running an M1 Mac on the latest macOS, and this screensaver works straight out of the box now, no big issues as far as I'm concerned.

What I do is I made a folder under the user home directory which is "/Users/YourUserName/", I dump the videos I want savehollywood to have access to in there. And whenever I want to change the videos I go to System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> Screen Saver -> SaveHollywood -> Screen Saver Options, go to near top of the window and you should see a button with a "+" sign, that allows you to manually add the videos to the screen saver and use it. Click it and it opens a window allowing you to choose files. I'd then go to my folders where I saved my screensaver videos, choose the video you want and done. Works with no problem.

FYI "Rosetta 2" is a piece of software that "translates" software code made for Intel/AMD chips with x86 architecture, to run on Apple's chips with ARM64 architecture. It's like a charger head that allows you to plug an American power plug into a British socket, and it does only that, nothing else. From what I know it runs entirely in the background automatically when you run software made for x86 chips. Its a "2" because Apple made a previous Rosetta for when they were changing from IBM's PowerPC chips to Intel's chips. Read more here (warning: lots of fancy words): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)#Rosetta_2

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