Photos from photo booth being saved with weird titles?

On my imac, when you save a photo from photobooth, its named the same as it was in photo both (such as Photo 1189.jpg)
But on my macbook, when i save photos they save as Photo on 2010-10-13 at 15.54 #3.jpg
Is there any way to change how they are saved? Its an organization issue.

Any way? Yes, but the solution may create even more organization issues. Apple has changed the way Photo Booth assigns filenames. Are you running different versions of the OS on your iMac and MacBook?
What not to do . . . . A file within the Photo Booth application can be modified to change its filenaming conventions. But before you begin to tinker with the MacBook, you'll want to have a backup so that you can easily return to where you started. Or, at the very least, work on a copy of the Photo Booth application so that you can toss it if you don't like the results.
Steps to modify the application:
1. Close Photo Booth.
2. Control-click on Photo Booth.app and select Show Package Contents.
3. Work your way to:
Photo Booth.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings
4. Open Localizable.strings in a text editor such as TextEdit or TextWrangler, scroll to the "Default/photo file name format template," and change the next line from:
"Photo on %@ at %@" = "Photo on %@ at %@";
to:
"Photo on %@ at %@" = "Photo";
5. Save the file.
The next photo you take with Photo Booth will be called "Photo.jpg" and it then will be followed by
Photo #2.jpg
Photo #3.jpg
Photo #4.jpg
Photo #5.jpg
etc.
But note that if you later decide to delete Photo #3.jpg, its number will be used for the next photo you take. In other words, with a gap in the sequence, the sixth photo will be named Photo #3.jpg, and the seventh will be Photo #6.jpg. After several rounds of deleting, the numbers attached to the photos will become nearly meaningless.
What to do instead . . . . I'd advise that you adapt to Photo Booth's new naming conventions rather than try to return to the old. Resisting Apple's changes to Apple software is a losing game. System updates have a way of silently overwriting application modifications.
Or you might consider a method of postprocessing the files that Photo Booth stores in Pictures/Photo Booth. A folder action that watches Pictures/Photo Booth for new additions and automatically changes their names as they're added might be the best approach. Perhaps someone in the Mac OS X Technologies/AppleScript forum can help with a folder action script.

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