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IMAC G5(ISight) Photo Booth wont open!

"Isight is currently being used by another application"...Oh no it isn't!!!

I seem to get this error when opening photobooth and thus can't use it. This happened after fixing permissions and installing adium. I'm sure i'm not the only person to get this problem. Help!!! i love my shiny new g5....P.S For everyone complaning about the noise on these machines, mine is quiet as a mouse.

imac g5(isight), Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Nov 29, 2005 11:58 AM

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User profile for user: Michael Morgan1
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Nov 29, 2005 12:52 PM in response to coopsfromuk

"Isight is currently being used by another
application"..<snip> ...after ... installing adium.


Well, my most excellent guess is that one of the above has something to do with the other. FWIW, I haven't installed Adium and my PhotoBooth works fine — I'd try getting rid of adium for a while, see if that fixes things.

iMac G5 17" iSight Mac OS X (10.4.3)
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User profile for user: drumgik
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Feb 12, 2006 9:44 AM in response to coopsfromuk

I've posted the same problem last week. And as I was looking at this forum, I came across to a thread that has the same problem as mine. The solution given to that thread was resetting the SMU. I tried it, and it works for me...But Im still observing it...if you have questions about resetting the SMU check out this link from apple.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301733
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