Hanging screen saver preferences

My screen saver preferences crashes when I try to change the source for the photos. Previously he was using a CIFS share which is now dead but the continuous prefs to try to access the share and never allows me to change the source.

Is it possible to reset the preferences for the screen saver, the default values. (Mac OS 10.11.6) via other means that the System Prefs IE overwrite default plist

Trash those files they are trying to open the Sys Prefs...

/ Users/yourusername / Library/Preferences/com. Apple.Desktop.plist

Users/YourUserName//Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist

/ Users/yourusername / Library/Preferences/com. Apple.SystemPreferences.plist

/ Users/yourusername / Library/Preferences/ByHost/com. Apple.Screensaver. < x 12digitHe # > .plist

/ Users/yourusername / Library/Preferences/ByHost/com. Apple.ScreenSaverPhotoChoose r. < 12digitHex # > .plist

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