iSight not found on my MBP

[tbassetto]

Hi,

I have a Macbook pro Late 2007 with a built-in iSight (of course) and Mac OS X 10.6.

Some weeks ago my iSight started to be not recognized by software like Photo Booth of Skype. As I don't use it frequently I didn't search a solution but now I miss my webcam.

Photo Booth simply show a message like "webcam not connected".

I think that the problem started when i uninstalled an app which emulate a webcam from a video file. But I can't remember the name of this app.

What can I do now?

Thanks.

 

[Patrick J]

Was that app camtwist?

 

[tbassetto]

Finally I remember. It was CamCamX: http://b-l-a-c-k-o-p.com/CamCamX.html (no it's not a porn app ).

However, the CamCamX website doesn't help me so much.

 

[beccaness]

I had this problem a few days ago on my '08 MBP.

This is if anyone happens to be searching and has the exact same problem.

I couldn't find any solution that applied to me. Here's what I did to fix it...

I've been trying to free up space on my MBP, so I backed it up on the external,
and then deleted over 20,000 (photo and design) files. Apparently, that made my macbook mad...

Photobooth, skype, and facebook all said no webcam was attached. I looked through and it showed
that it didn't even have iSight. Boy did that make me mad. After searching google for hours and
coming up with nothing that would fix it, I just decided to turn toward Time Machine.

Well, when I restored all 20,000 of those files from the external, iSight magically worked again...
I didn't delete any pertinent software.. Just PSD, PDF, JPG, INDD, and AI files.

But now I'm back to square one with tons of files slowing my MBP down.

Does anyone know why iSight just disappears? I've seen different cases of this happening, with
different fixes each time. It's not like we physically unplug the camera, even though, that's
what it's acting like...

 

[tbassetto]

Hey.

Concerning my problem:

• I went to an apple store and the genius said that my iSight was working with his snow leopard on an external hard drive, so it wasn't a technical problem
• after installed the 10.6.6 update, the iSight was working again

But now, it's not working at all, again.