Photo booth camera not working?
Right, so theres a problem that seems to be all over the internet, and on lots of mac user forums, even the Apple site has an article on it. If you’ve found this, you know the problem, but heres a recap;
- Photo Booth wont start the camera/iSight automatically, and doesn’t seem to respond.
- iChat and other programs that use the camera work fine.
- You’ve tried the CMD-OPT-P-R restart “thing” to clear your SMC.
Nothing seems to work right?
Well, one of my clients had the same problem today, and thanks to the genius way mac apps are distributed (ie: in one .app file), my solution was to simply grab Photo Booth from my macbook, and copy it onto his. Fixed the problem, see, simple is better 
Now, where can you get a working copy of Photo Booth from without trawling the web, or looking for torrents, or reinstalling, or rolling back, well here of course
Download Photo Booth – compressed directly from my macbook which is running OS X 10.6.2.
If this fixes your problem, can you do me a small favor? Post a comment, and/or follow me on twitter
PS: Before anyone chirps up about copyright issues, having Apple hardware entitles you to use mac os, and as such, allows you to use Photo Booth, so I don’t see any issue in making the .app file available if it helps other users out there, with what seems to be a common problem that no one has fixed.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:21
Thank you very much. I have had this problem before and had to go searching for my installation disk to reinstall Photo Booth, but your way was so much easier. Thanks again.
April 1st, 2009 at 05:54
i desperately want to download this file, since my restart disc mysteriously disappeared. ive tried a couple times, but everytime it goes to a blank page and never starts the download. any help getting my photobooth back would be greatly appreciated.
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:57
I’ve just checked the link, and it works fine?
May 7th, 2009 at 07:59
THANK YOU! I have been trying to find a fix for my problem for months! After deleting the old photo booth and doing this download my problem is at last fixed. RELIEF! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
December 8th, 2009 at 10:06
404 Error – file not found
December 15th, 2009 at 09:50
Ah, thanks for letting me know, didn’t move the file to mediafire when I migrated the blog to a new server. Fixed.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:00
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July 29th, 2010 at 03:58
wew, its work!! thaks bro..