Photobooth memory limit?

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Photobooth memory limit?

Is there a memory limit in photobooth? I have about 90 videos and pictures held on the app itself and now my video will stop at around 30 seconds even though it says it is still recording... I only find out that it hasn't recorded my entire subject until I hit "stop record". I am trying to erase some videos and put them in iphoto, but it would be great to know if there is a concrete answer to this...

Cheers,

k.

iMac G4, Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Posted on Mar 18, 2010 3:51 PM

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Rod Hagen

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Mar 18, 2010 4:06 PM in response to kellygene45

Hi kellygene45.

Are you actually using an iMac G4 and OSX10.2 as it says in your profile, or have you moved on from there? In other words, is your problem occurring on an MBP under a recent version of OSX , or on something else? If it is the latter you may get a more apposite answer elsewhere.

I'm not aware of any specific file number or movie length limit in photobooth. Essentially it is limited by the amount of space available. Do you have a very full HD, perhaps. Once you get down below about 10 to 15% of free space available on your HD (even more if you do a lot of video) things can get tricky on Macs.

You might want to check for more general problems - boot up from your OS DVd and run Disk Utility to "repair drive" etc - just in case the problem is being caused by more generalised corruption of some kind.

Cheers

Rod

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