Batch deleting PhotoBooth folders from Users home directories

I am trying to free up server space. Photo booth is quite popular among my students 300+. Is there a way to delete the folders all at once from their home folders?

On the server, in Terminal.app do:
sudo rm -rf /Volumes/<nameofdisk>/<pathtouserfoldersharepoint>/Users/*/Pictures/"Photo Booth"/*
The above may not work if you have the user's folders with a space in their username.
You can prevent the use of the built-in iSight camera on iMacs by issuing thiese commands in ARD's 'Send Unix command...':
srm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBVideoSuppo rt.kext
Then:
touch /System/Library/Extensions
Then reboot the machines. This will remove the kext for the iSight and clear the kext cache.
Test it on one machine before applying it to a whole lab.

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Jimmy Hat wrote:
I've just set up a new entry level model iMac for my Mum. Without getting into a discussion about the benefits or otherwise of doing so,
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