Photo booth library broke my image links!
originally i had snow leopard when i started using omnifocus to work on a project. i often took pictures of concept drawings using photobooth and then linked them to the omnifocus document where they applied.
now that i've updated to lion, photo booth has tied all those images up into a library instead of the regular folder, which has broken all my links. i know i could just open the show the library package's contents and copy out the images, but we're talking abour relinking a few hundred images by hand. pain in the donkey.
anybody have any ideas how to fix this? i guess apple didn't think about that potential issue, huh?
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Quit all apps and restart Mac. Then open your Home Finder > Pictures folder, and double click on the Photo Booth Library item. Photo Booth should launch and automatically use the images in your Photo Booth Library. You can test that by quitting Photo Booth and re-launching the app to be sure it still connects to your proper library.
If the above does not work, I suggest you use OS X Recovery to reinstall OS X Mavericks. Launch Photo Booth to see if the problem is resolved.
If nothing suggested here works, perhaps you can get help from some of the topics in this search.
BTW, your posted OS X Mavericks (10.9.1) system info is out of date if you have applied the current Mavericks 10.9.2. version You can update your system info in seafaring's Products when you are logged into Apple Discussions.
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