RESTORE PHOTO BOOTH LIBRARY

Our hard drive recently crashed. Luckily, the files were backed up.
When my daughter recently opened Photo Booth, it told her it could not locate the library.
If I choose "Choose Existing," it takes me to a few different photo libraries, including one called "Photo Booth Library." In that file are all of the Photo Booth pictures from 6-7 years. But for some reason it won't let me select them. I know they're physically there.
Is there some other file that it wants me to link to? Is there something else I can do?
(Originally posted this over in the iPhoto section but moved it here after being scolded and told this was where it belonged...)

Maybe this thread will help:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/6382004#6382004

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Launch Disk Utility located in your Applications / Utilities folder
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Click: Repair Disk Permissions
This can take a few minutes so don't be alarmed.
Restart your Mac when it's finished then try PhotoBooth.

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Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
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Photo booth library broke my image links!

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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?

I did not have the problem that you describe when upgrading my Macs, but here is what I would do if I did:
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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When I click on Photo Booth library it opens up the application instead of accessing my photo library

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Photo booth library mixed

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Back up all data before proceeding.
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Step 1
If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to Step 2.
Triple-click anywhere in the following line on this page to select it:
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
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☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
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IPhoto: Restore photos to Library (help!) It's not working...

I have tried, unsuccessfully, several times to restore photos from my iPhoto Trash to the Library. I select the photos I want to restore, click on Restore to Library, and wait. The program invariably freezes, causing me to Force Quit. I need to restore these photos so I can empty the trash! Any ideas? Thanks in advance! I am using iPhoto '09.

Well you won't be syncing the two libraries as you don't want the same content in both, but only to update the one on the external, right? Otherwise you don't save any space...
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Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
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2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
Now you have two full versions of the Library.
3. On the Internal library, trash the Events you don't want there
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As a general rule: when deleting photos do them in batches of about 100 at a time. iPhoto can baulk at trashing large numbers at one go.
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Lost photo booth library

hello everybody
i had a little problem when going from tiger to leopard...
i made all my back-ups, but here is what happened with photo booth:
the files are on the right folder, all my 160 photos, but photo booth won't recognize them!
i tried to find something related to this, but found nothing
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-Hold the command key when you click the folder for import.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61026
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61015
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http://www.apple.com/support/iphoto/

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Moving iPhoto, Photo Booth, & iMovie library to an external drive

I've search through most of the support community and still havent found a concrete answer. Like most my current internal harddrive is about full. Mostly filled with photos and movies. I have a external harddrive that Time Machine is enabled. I also backed u my iphoto & photo booth library to the external drive. I have yet to move over any imovie data until I am sure that process will work.
How do I move all data over so that iphoto, photo booth, & imovie can be ran fom my external harddrive. Also how can I ensure that imovie will direct itself to the iphoto library on my external because all movies from the past use the iphoto library as its directory. Once this is done I would like to delete all previous data off of my nternal drive
Thank you

. I have a external harddrive that Time Machine is enabled. I also backed u my iphoto & photo booth library to the external drive. I have yet to move over any imovie data until I am sure that process will work.
Do you want to store your movies and photos on your Time Machine drive? That is not recommended, since you will not have a backup, if the media are only on your backup volume. You will need a second drive in addition to your backup drive, and this drive needs to be formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled), otherwise you cannot store photo libraries (iPhoto, Aperture) or iMovie events on that drive, see: Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture (remember, thta formatting erases a drive, you have to save any contents to another drive before formatting).
For iPhoto: Once your external drive has the correct file system, simply select your iPhoto library in the Finder and drag it to that drive. Then double click the copied library to open it in iPhoto.
For iMovie: To move your iMovie events to an external drive, use the event browser in iMovie - don't use the Finder!
See this Help page: Copy or move video from your Event Library to an external ... http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2302
I don't use Photo Booth, so I do not know how to move your Photo Booth photos.
Regards
Léonie

How to merge the contents of two Photo Booths?

Hello. We have two Macbooks (Old + Existing). Both are/were updated to Maverick. However, I have restored the Old Macbook back to original (Snow Leopard) in order to sell. I manually took off files as well as doing a Time Machine backup.
I would like to add all the photos and videos from Photo Booth on the Old Macbook into my Existing Macbook.
Is this possible either a. through a specific file in Time Machine (I do NOT wish to replace the Existing with the Old. This is a merger.) or b. with the Photo Booth library I copied onto an external harddrive? However, this is one 1.75gb file with the Photo Booth icon (a film strip) rather than separate photo files. I am unsure how to access individual photographs or videos. I was hesitant to open it up in case it negatively affected the Existing Photo Booth.
Thanks for any assistance.

Great, I just lost 10 GB of data thanks to OSX folder merge... because appaerantly I should have known better not to keep a subfolder inside my folder I was trying to merge
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Merge contents of two folders only works for files, it does NOT work for subfolders!!!!
Can we please get this acknowledged as a bug that needs fixing?
EXAMPLE:
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MERGE TO
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               - text2.txt (this gets updated / merged)
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Photo booth taking up too much space

I am not sure if I am putting this question in the right forum... I recently had an error saying my startup disk is almost full. I started investigating what is taking up so much space. I have a 500GB hard drive and only had about 3 gb free space. I started deleting some items and after lots of work I now am at 14.49GB free space. woo hoo! Well I see my photo booth library is taking up 278GB of space. Why so much? I opened the app and deleted almost all the pictures and videos in there, but it barely made a dent in how much space the program is using. Is it supposed to take up so much space? How can I clear it out?

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I can see why kids would have a fun time with photobooth and the things it can do with peoples faces, etc. When I was a kid, I grew up with a real photo darkroom and bulk film, so I was shooting 35mm and reloading the film cans, developing and printing, hands in chemicals. We also had reloading supplies for the guns. A different world, so was the range of hands-on learning experience.
You should buy a printed manual for the operating system, a Missing Manuals (for the OS X you have.) They're fairly good. I've had a few, mostly for older systems where I got a great deal for mere coins a few years after the newer systems were released, in secondhand stores. And included a few with Macs I'd restored and upgraded, when donated.
Anyway, life is an adventure...
Good luck & happy computing!

Why can't I see video thumbnails in Photo Booth anymore?

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Photo Booth Pictures File Location?

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If I open up "Photo Booth Library" I can see the pictures within photobooth. But not the file location. Also, some of my photos

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open Terminal
type:
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