[Solved] iScreensaver Crashing upon Launch

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Symptoms:

iScreensaver Personal, or iScreensaver Designer 4.5.0.388 crash about 1-30 seconds after launch.

Cause:

iScreensaver is crashing while scanning your iTunes or iPhoto library

Solution:

  1. Open iScreensaver.
  2. from the iScreensavermenu, choose Preferences (tip: or, you can hold down the Command key and press the Comma key)
  3. Uncheck the “Metadata Import: Use iPhoto library” and/or “Use iTunes library” checkbox(es)
  4. Click OK
  5. Quit and restart iScreensaver

We have only had reports of this happening using OS X 10.10.1 but if it happens to you, please contact us.

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To diagnose the comment for sure, open the Console.app application, click “Show Log List” and then find the iScreensaver Crash log on the left side.

You may find a section that looks like this:

Thread XX Crashed:
0 com.iscreensaver.personal 0x00c9f8eb cXMLDocument.SetTextContent%%os + 1103
1 com.iscreensaver.personal 0x00c9f3ac cXMLDocument.GetTagContent%i4%oo&i4 + 970
2 com.iscreensaver.personal 0x00c9bcaf cXMLDocument.Parse%o%ooo + 1942
3 com.iscreensaver.personal 0x00ca1b24 cXMLDocument.LoadXML%o%ooo + 308
4 com.iscreensaver.personal 0x00913c27 ciPhoto2.Constructor%%o + 1012
5 com.iscreensaver.personal 0x00917b07 tiPhoto.Event_Run%%o + 120
6 rbframework.dylib 0x0104fa21 threadRun + 633
7 com.apple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9c1068b0 CooperativeThread + 305
8 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x94b7becf _pthread_body + 138
9 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x94b7be45 _pthread_start + 162
10 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x94b79f0e thread_start + 34

This would be very strong indication that the iTunes/iPhoto library scanning is to blame.