How to retrieve accidentally deleted Photo Booth pictures?

yeslexii wrote:

Apparently I accidently deleted my pictures on photobooth. Now when I open photobooth it says my photo library can not be located

I've gone in my Finder and gone to the photobooth album but no pictures are there. It's empty. I've looked in the trash and I can not find where the pictures are.
I've even searched in spotlight the date of a picture I've recently taken and it does now show up.

Please please please tell me where these pictures went and how i can retrieve them!!!!

Normally they reside in the Users > Pictures folder as Photo Booth Library and you can control click on it and go to Show Package Contents and see if there is anything in that folder and if so, you choose the library.

Do you have a recent Time Machine backup?

Pete

yeslexii wrote:

Oh my goodness. I was about to give up if I didn't get a response from someone as soon as possible. Thank you so so so so much. Life savor.

There wasn't a photobooth album in the pictures folder (odd) but when I went to trash and actually typed in "Photo booth library" it popped up even though it didn't show without searching.

Thanks so much, Pete!

Glad to help. Just remember to place the Photo Booth Library back in the Pictures folder so it can always find it by default.

Happy Computing

Pete

I deleted all my pictures too. I searched the trash and all the pictures were still there. I clicked Command and Shift, and clicked on about 15 pictures at a time and dragged them to the "my pictures" folder.