Photobooth keeps crashing whenever I try to watch a photo booth video???

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Photobooth keeps crashing whenever I try to watch a photo booth video???

So I recently moved EVERYTHING from my old Mac desktop to my new one. When I record a video and then click to watch it, the recording screen will go black and the little color wheel will show up and long story short, I havent been able to watch any videos for a few days (for the first couple hours after the stuff on my old imac -> new imac, I could watch videos perfectly fine.)

But...with my old iMac, I had about 10 slides of extra photobooth effects. It slowed down photobooth TREMENDOUSLY but I didnt know how to uninstall them.

Unfortunately, those same effects have moved over to my new mac and its driving me nuts. I thought that was the culprit and tried uninstalling them. I cant do Library>Compositions>erase because when I do so, theres nothing there to delete!

What should I do? Also I erased 3ixv and it did nothing for me.

Does anyone have a solution???

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Mac OSX 10.7.4

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Posted on Jun 5, 2012 4:27 PM

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EZ Jim

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Jun 6, 2012 7:32 AM in response to rosepetals910

rosepetals910 wrote:... When I record a video ... I havent been able to watch any videos for a few days...

Restart Mac. Then your Mac's Disk Utility to repair permissions. Next, download and apply the 10.7.4 Combo Update: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1524. Repair permissions again immediately following the system restart that completes the Combo update.

Then use PB to record a new short test video and see if it plays back. If so, your PB has been repaired.

rosepetals910 wrote:... about 10 slides of extra photobooth effects... I... tried uninstalling them...Library>Compositions...nothing there to delete!

If you have or can find the original source of the effects you added, I strongly suggest that you follow the uninstall instructions specified for those effects. If you have not other alternative, or if the instructions were to manually delete them, look in Library > Composition folders until you find them. Possible locations are listed below.

Perhaps you looked in the Finder > Go > Computer >

Your Hard Disk name > Library > Compositions folder.

The added effects are most likely to be in the Finder > Go > Computer >

Your Hard Disk name > System > Library > Compositions folder.

In the unlikely event that you installed it for only ONE user, the effects may be in

your User > Library folder.

However you remove the effects, restart your Mac after deleting them and test again.

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Mac OSX 10.7.4

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