Import INTO Photo Booth?

When I move from Tiger to Leopard (with a complete format of everything), I was surprise too that you can't import to Photo Booth...

But there is a way, I had like 100 pictures in tiger in my /Pictures/Photo Booth file and i managed to get them all back... but it was long...

Here's how I did it :

1. Take 100 crappy picture of yours)lf (in /Pictures/Photo Booth, they will be named Photo 1.jpg to Photo 100.jpg. You don't care about them, you just want Photo Booth to recognized 100 Pictures

2. Copy paste you 100 nice deformed Pictures from you old Photo Booth (which have to be named (Photo 1.jpg to Photo 100.jpg) in the /Pictures/Photo Booth.

3. Click yes to replace and you are done! Open Photo Booth and enjoy your Pictures!

Edit:
I forgot to mentionned, I had 10 new pictures in Pictures/Photo Booth from Leopard that I didn't wan to lose they where named Photo 1.jpg to Photo 10.jpg. So I renamed them Photo 101.jpg to Photo 110.jpg. And took 110 crappy pictures of me on step #1.

Message was edited by: Snoopy31415

But it does store the photos even though you may not be able to edit them. And they can be used elsewhere - I've just proved that by copying one I took some time ago into Photoshop Elements. They can also be sent to iPhoto. Hence they can be edited - outside of Photo Booth. They cannot be returned to PB though by copy/paste.

If they are not stored in recents.plist where are they stored? I've suggested that by copying the old recents.plist back into the appropriate place the photos may be returned to PB but of course any new ones would be lost. This is not editing them. The original post concerned 'getting them back from a backup place'.

Neville

Hi guys,

Until about 10 minutes ago, I was just as lost and confused as you guys were, and very disappointed that it seemingly is such a chore to do something that should be very easy. I have the quick and easy solution to this problem.

The first key bit of information is this: in Leopard (10.5.2 currently), Photo Booth stores the information of what photos it shows in a file called "Recents.plist" and this file is in 'username'>Library>Application Support>Photo Booth. Now that we know where this file is, we can ignore the one that is actually in the Photo Booth folder (with all your pictures), since that one isn't being used anymore; you can keep it, delete it, eat it...whatever. Now, the tricky but easy to follow part is this:


Open terminal. Type cd, then press the Space Bar. Now in Finder, drag the folder you're working with ("Photo Booth"...should be by default in your Photos folder) into the Terminal window.

Mouse click on Terminal to make it active and hit Return.

Then type ls -1 (that's lower-case l, s, and the number 1, meaning "list short with one entry per line").
Hit Return again. You should get a list of all the files currently in the folder.
You'll have to alter the list a bit (I usually employ Microsoft Word for find and replace work) to translate it into the proper format. Open Word and paste in the data from Terminal. Delete Recents.plist from the end of the list (since the finished plist doesn't need to include itself in the list of photos).
Hit Command-F, then click on the Replace tab. Enter ^p in the search field (that's the code for paragraph breaks) and enter </string>^p^t<string> in the replace field. Click on Replace All.
Add a <string> to the first item in the list, and delete any unneeded extra stuff at the end of the list.
Select the results and hit Command-C to copy.
Switch to the recents.plist file that you've opened in TextEdit, select all the <string> lines, delete, and paste in the new lines from Word.
Save the new recents.plist file to disk and reopen Photo Booth. All the pictures in the folder should now display.

I hope this helps. I did it and it worked really well for me.

So that`s where the recent.plist is, I couldn't find it...

Anyway my long and painful solution worked so i don`t have this problem anymore, I will keep your solution in mind for the next OS upgrade/format I will do.

Thanks

I am having the same issue. Also, there was a fix for the Tiger version of Photo Booth using the recents.plist but it seems that the Leopard version put the list somewhere else.

recents.plist is found in /users/(your user name)/pictures/photobooth

Neville

You can't. Photo Booth is designed for just taking photos not modifying existing ones. Technically impossible. Sorry.















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