photo booth how to move pictures to a ''useful'' location ?

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photo booth how to move pictures to a ''useful'' location ?

For me, the only use I have found of Photo Booth, is when I need to take some snapshots from a web cam. However, this has always been a mystery to find a practical, intuitive and useful way to eventually use these pics outside of Photo Booth. I see there's a way to ''export'' and select a location, but it looks like this has to be done one pic at a time... And fortunately, it seems to save in JPG.

Is there a way to enter that directory and just copy these pics (assuming these are not in a useless format) and just paste in another folder (even on a removable disk) ?

Mac mini, macOS 10.13

Posted on Mar 29, 2020 10:23 AM

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leroydouglas

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Mar 29, 2020 10:33 AM in response to lanstrad1

From PhotoBooth.app If you Control click on an image—>Export

https://support.apple.com/guide/photo-booth/welcome/mac

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Yer_Man

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Mar 29, 2020 10:47 AM in response to lanstrad1

Is there a way to enter that directory and just copy these pics (assuming these are not in a useless format) and just paste in another folder (even on a removable disk) ?

No. Or at least, none that anyone's ever found.

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VikingOSX

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Mar 29, 2020 10:48 AM in response to lanstrad1

That little symbol at the lower right will allow you to add the selected image to Photos, and other sharing targets. Like iPhoto and Photos, there is a Photo Booth Library in your Pictures folder. Inside that Photo Booth Library, you can find all images taken in an internal Pictures folder.

Click on your Desktop, and then press shift+command+G to open the Go To Folder panel. Copy and paste the following path into that dialog, and then click Go.

~/Pictures/Photo Booth Library/Pictures

You will land amongst all of your Photo Booth Pictures, which you can then copy, or move to other Finder locations. The file extensions are hidden, so you can select all of these images, and then press command+i. On that Get Info panel, uncheck hide extension. The .jpg file format is normal for pictures as it was developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (aka jpeg).

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Yer_Man

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Mar 29, 2020 11:33 AM in response to VikingOSX

I doff my cap to you sir... don't know how many years I've looked for that....

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lanstrad1 Author

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Mar 29, 2020 2:39 PM in response to VikingOSX

That works! except there's a point I don't get : it looks like it's dropping it in a folder called ''Pictures'' that does not show anything else normally present in my ''Pictures'' folder ... Is it ''virtual'' ?? Indeed from there I can copy and put wherever I want!

However, how do I insure i do not duplicate or triplicate stuff in such a ''virtual'' folder ?

Thank you very much !

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Yer_Man

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Mar 29, 2020 3:38 PM in response to lanstrad1

It's bringing you inside the library packag. A package is a special kind of folder that looks like a file from the Finder. It's designed to discourage the user mucking about with the internal parts. The Photos and iPhoto libraries are/were the same.