HT1338 My iMac Photo Booth isn't working

I've had my iMac computer for maybe a month now so it's still brand new. My photo booth was working just fine until the other day. Now, every time I try to use it, it opens normally and i can see my other pictures and everything but it either just stays black or stays black and the loading wheel keeps going. the green light turns on though. PLEASE HELP i can't take any pictures. My iMovie has been doing this too.

Try troubleshooting the built in iSight camera > How to Troubleshoot iSight
iSight is necessary for the Photo Booth app.

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Martha

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Hi OH~IO,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions
First try Repairing Permissions, with the Disk Utility in Applications/Utilities. This will read your Receipts folder for the latest Permissions based on the Updates.
Next, if that does not work try deleting com.apple.Photobooth.plist for your Home/library/Preferences Folder and restarting Photo Booth.
6:25 PM Wednesday; November 22, 2006

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aquaman wrote:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
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this is so depressing
thanks in advance
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Try this
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