Photo booth issues:

[spitkicker]

I opened photobooth and now it is showing that a video camera is not connected icon.

But I have an iMac and the camera is built in.
It was working fine earlier today. The only thing that I can recall is installing and apple security update and a garage band update.
I checked ichat.. and my camera is working when i do videochat.

Any ideas on what my issue could be?

 

[HLdan]

Did you try doing a restart yet? Sometimes things get a little weird, that happened to me the other night when using iMovie, I used it for a couple of hours and then all of a sudden it crashed and then upon relaunch it said no camera connected and I have the iMac as well.

Instead of a simple restart I would recommend resetting the PRAM. This will clear out memory that may be acting weird and causing issues. After the chime rings during start up hold down "command+option+P+R" until the chime rings again then let go and allow your Mac to start up.

 

[spitkicker]

I'm going to try that now.. hopefully it works.

I'm sure that my camera is fine tho.. because I am still using it with iChat.
after doing some research I have found that photo booth might not be trying to access the isight camera or "turn it active" as you will.

Somehow the updates could have messed with the settings...

A question I have for you guy is, how would I go about reinstalling photo booth without having to reinstall my entire leopard system?

Any further help or thought would be appreciated

 

[spitkicker]

and... resetting PRAM did not work.... man this is getting frustrating

 

[richard.mac]

try deleting the photo booth preference file "com.apple.PhotoBooth.plist" in ~/Library/Preferences

 

[spitkicker]

That didn't work either...

If I can't come up with any answers I think I'm just gonna back up all my stuff and re-install Leopard.
or should I try to restore a working version of my computer with Time Machine?

Wait a second is it even possible to install a new version of leopard over my current version of leopard?

 

[spitkicker]

well just an updated.. I fixed it apparently...

there was an update that came out around christmas.. and it makes my camera not be initiated by photobooth.
I'm sure it's the new security update.

Anyways... I used time machine to go back to an earlier version.... and boom it works...

so if anyone else has issues this could be a remedy for you...

thanks for all the help everyone.

 

[chiclets]

Also having Photobooth issues since Leopard Upgrade

Will there be a patch coming out for this? I too can use my iSight with iChat, but the screen is black when I open Photobooth. Anyone else have this problem and know if there is a solution? I don't have a previous backup through time machine before the last security update...