Now I've got the 'iSight in use by another application' issue. :-(

There are plenty of other threads on this, I know, and I reckon I've read most of them by now. Why does this suddenly happen? I do not have any other applications running. I have tried to make iSight work in all the applications on my Mac that can use it:
iMovie 6
Comic Life 1.4.1
Photo Booth
iChat
But all of them make the same complaint. What is the ultimate solution for fixing this? It worked fine the last time I tried it, a few weeks ago.
Has anybody here had this problem and fixed it - if so, exactly what did you do?

"I know, and I reckon *I've read most of them by now."*
"Has anybody here had this problem and fixed it - if so, exactly what did you do? "
If you mean that you have tried all the troubleshooting suggestions mentioned in this forum, then I suggest that you contact Apple. Hopefully, you have AppleCare. If so, you can also check out the Chat with a Support Agent. The online chat support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Even though this wasn't related to my problem I checked to see if I had the file and realised it wasn't there! So I downloaded it from another source, popped it in the folder mentioned above, and hey-presto! My iSight is now working again. I have no idea why the file was missing originally.
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You can get it here. http://techslaves.org/index.php?page=17 It is in the first part of the page there are two links.

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Was the camera plugged in when you did the update ?
If so unplug it for about 15 mins or so.
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Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
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