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ben255525 · Nov 5, 2011, 07:12 PM

My Mac Is A Mac OSX Mac-book Pro Tiger Software And I Downloaded A Screen-saver And Every Time I Open System Preferences, Then Open Desktop & Screen Saver It Opens Then Crashes Right Afterwards.
Then About Half And Hour Ago I Found On A Thread About AppZapper.
I Tried To Use It But It Wont Open Either.
Help?

Oh And The Url For The Website It: http://www.AppZapper.com/
~Mike

Big Mac · Nov 5, 2011, 11:10 PM

TYVM, bro.

Curiosity · Nov 6, 2011, 12:49 AM

The screen savers are in the main library on the hard drive or in your account library. They should be in a subdirectory called "Screen Savers".

Big Mac · Nov 6, 2011, 02:15 AM

I'm pretty sure it's spam.

Spheric Harlot · Nov 6, 2011, 02:58 AM

Originally Posted by Big Mac

I'm pretty sure it's spam.

Does AppZapper really resort to spam? Theyve been around forever. Plus, it doesn't work, as per the OP.

P · Nov 6, 2011, 06:05 AM

Very odd spam that will note that a certain piece of software doesn't work...It may be thing one with a thing two to come (for a competitor), but let's try solving the problem first.

Screensavers can be installed in one of several locations:

~/Library/Screen Savers (where ~ stands for your home directory)
/Library/Screen Savers
/System/Library/Screen Savers

To go to any of these, use the go to folder command from the Finder Go menu and paste the path from either of the above locations into the dialog box that opens. Try them in order and see if you can find the screen saver you installed.

angelmb · Nov 6, 2011, 08:30 AM

My Mac Is A Mac OSX Mac-book Pro Tiger Software And I Downloaded A Screen-saver And Every Time I Open System Preferences, Then Open Desktop & Screen Saver It Opens Then Crashes Right Afterwards.

Any link to that particular screen saver.? It might be not compatible with 10.4 (an off-chance), or even with your MBP GPU, (highly doubtful).

Or it might be some weird Adobe Flash based screen saver and your version of Flash is outdated.

Then About Half And Hour Ago I Found On A Thread About AppZapper.
I Tried To Use It But It Wont Open Either.

I have never had any issues with AppZapper. Please note AppZapper 2 requires Mac OS X 10.6 which you are not running. To get it working you need to download the older 1.8 version. Download link below:

http://appzapper.com/downloads/AppZapper1.8.zip

Let us know if that one works for you !!

ben255525 · 08:37 AM

I Had Downloaded A Few Screen-savers And Then I Downloaded One Called The HAL-9000 screen-saver And It Made It So I Cant Open Desktop And Screen-saver
So I Will Try As What "P" Said And Hope It Works.

Oh And the link to the 2 screensavers are http://www.halproject.com/hal/ Once You Go There Go To "Hal 9000 Screensaver And In Small/Grey Print Underneath It Said: Animated Interface Displays Then Download The Screensaver From There.
~Mike

ben255525 · Nov 6, 2011, 08:49 AM

My Screen Savers Folder Didn't Have The Screen Saver The HAL 9000 In The Folder When I Opened It The Screen Saver The HAL 9000 was The One That Caused The Problems And It Wasn't In The Folder So... Now What?

ben255525 · Nov 6, 2011, 08:51 AM

Spheric Harlot · Nov 6, 2011, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by ben255525

My Screen Savers Folder Didn't Have The Screen Saver The HAL 9000 In The Folder When I Opened It The Screen Saver The HAL 9000 was The One That Caused The Problems And It Wasn't In The Folder So... Now What?

What about the other two folders?

ibook_steve · Nov 6, 2011, 09:18 AM

Hi, Ben.

It would be really good if you could stop capitalizing words in your sentences other than the first word. Besides making your posts look like spam, I think it might give somebody a seizure trying to read it!

Just some advice from your friendly mod.

Steve

Spheric Harlot · Nov 6, 2011, 09:23 AM

Isn't that what happens when you write in all-caps?

EDIT: AH, NO. INTERESTING. MUST BE ON PURPOSE, EH.

ben255525 · Nov 6, 2011, 10:54 AM

Yeah sorry I tend to write in caps alot
and to Spheric Harlot I can't find the other 2 folders so...
~Mike

P · Nov 6, 2011, 11:27 AM

Folder one:

In the Finder, Find the menu "Go" and select "Home". In the window that opens, open the folder called "Library", then the folder called "Screen Saver". If it's not there, go to folder two.

Folder two:

In the Finder, Find the menu "Go" and select "Computer". Open your main hard disk - usually called "Macintosh HD". Open the folder called "Library", then the folder called "Screen Saver". If it's not there, go to folder three.

Folder three:

In the Finder, Find the menu "Go" and select "Computer". Open your main hard disk - usally called "Macintosh HD". Open the folder called "System". In the window that opens, open the folder called "Library" (usually the only thing in that window), then the folder called "Screen Saver".

Wiskedjak · Nov 6, 2011, 11:44 AM

The Hal 9000 screensaver is an application, so it might not be installing itself in the screensavers folder.

Spheric Harlot · Nov 6, 2011, 01:05 PM

I've just tested it.

It is installed in the user's Library/Screen Savers/ folder.

That is Folder One, as described by P:

Originally Posted by P

Folder one:

In the Finder, Find the menu "Go" and select "Home". In the window that opens, open the folder called "Library", then the folder called "Screen Saver". If it's not there, go to folder two.