Photo Booth Files Location

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Photo Booth Files Location

Seriously. Anyway around how photo booth ALWAYS saves it's files in Users/user/Pictures?

I have my main pictures linked up to drobbox (WHICH ROCKS for syncing!! :D) but photobooth (a great app that I like using). maybe i should just bypass photo booth and use evernote..hhmm.

anyways, I want to change the destination folder of that. You can pick iWeb's destiation.

it's irritating how some apple products you can't change the file destination. not having control over that.

Macbook 2.16 (White), Mac OS X (10.5.5), 8gb 1st Gen iPhone; 3.06ghz 24" iMac.

Posted on Jun 5, 2009 1:54 PM

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Jun 5, 2009 11:36 PM in response to johntkucz

There's always a way 😉

Close Photo Booth.
Create a folder called "Photo Booth" in your drop box.
Move all photos from /User/yourusername/Pictures/Photo Booth in that new folder.
Delete /User/yourusername/Pictures/Photo Booth

Create a symlink in place of the default save location pointing to the folder you created above.
To do that, open Terminal.
Type the following (copy/paste it, might prevent typos) each line followed by enter: cd Pictures/ ln -s ../Public/Drop\ Box/Photo\ Booth/ Photo\ Booth

You might want to create a backup of your home folder before messing around in the shell.

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