PhotoBooth won't save/delete photos

PhotoBooth will not save photos nor will it delete photos that are there. How can I fix this?
This is a school computer. I cannot/will not create a new user account as one post suggested previously.
iMac 21.5"OS 10.9; 3.1 GHz Intel Core i3; 2GB 1333 MHz DDR3; 206 GB available space
This is the only computer with this issue. Other 29 are fine.

oh ok, I found my PhotoBooth library file finally. I could have sworn I looked for it and couldn't find it. My husband did find it and noticed that my permissions were set to read-only.
However, changing my permissions to read-write didn't work either. (running repair permissions didn't seem to help either before this change or after it.)
Manually changing permissions did solve part of my problem -- it did allow me to delete old photos but still wouldn't allow me to take new ones. We also tried setting all the users (Staff and everyone) to read-write, but that didn't help.
My husband changed the name of the library to something else (just appended 'copy' on the end) and reopened photo booth. Then it asked if I wanted to create a new library because the old one could not be found. The new library now allows us to use Photo Booth normally. However we will have to merge the one movie I wanted to save from the old copy of the library, into the new one. Hopefully that won't recreate the problem.

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