Can't Save Photos on Iphoto

Hello, so I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to the new OSX Mavericks and now I can't save my photos on Iphoto. Before I could totally just take a picture no problem but now I get the message "Photo Booth encountered an error when trying to save your photos. Your photos cannot be saved at this time." I checked the permissions, that's fine and I also tried looking for the "Photo Booth" folder and I couldn't find it. I tried just manually creating it but that didn't work. Is anyone else having this issue? Any help would be appreciated.

I had the exact same issue and this is what I did to solve it.
The Photobooth photo library was in my documents folder (for some reason) instead of my pictures folder. I copied the library, moved it to my pictures folder, and opened the library.
When I re-opened Photobooth, it asked me if i wanted to make this new library the default. I said yes and now everything is working correctly and I can save the photos I take.

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