Change Photo Booth 'save to' directory?

[css136]

Hi, I am a new Mac user, switching from Linux Ubuntu (and, er, Windows). I am trying to clean up my home directory because it is so messy compared to my previous Linux directory. In particular, I am trying to move my Photos/Movies/Music/Documents directories to a parent folder called "docs" but this is more difficult than I had thought it would be. Photo Booth needs the directory "/Users/username/Photos" to save its photos, but I would obviously like to change this to match my new organization, "/Users/username/docs/photos". I can't find an option to change the default 'save to...' path - is this in any way possible?

The reason I am trying to re-organize things is just for convenience... from the command line, it is not so nice to have 1,000,000 directories in my home folder. Thanks for the help!

 

[Matek]

You can't change the path, unfortunately. Using a symlink would be an option, but that doesn't solve your clutter problem.

 

[css136]

Re

Ah, thanks for the info, but surely there is a way to change the path that Mac OS X uses for the "Photos" directory? Is the path "/Users/username/Pictures" hardcoded into the Photo Booth program, or do they use a general variable $PICTURES that links to the directory that Mac OS X 'thinks' is the Pictures directory? In other words, is it possible to change this at all?

I am having similar troubles with my Documents folder. Many of my programs have the default of storing program information in /Users/username/Documents, but I would kind of like to change this to something else. It seems like there should be a way to change the default "Documents" folder - any ideas?

Thanks for the help