Photo Booth save path

[mongrol]

Is there a way to change the save path of Photo Booth? I share my pictures fodler with my girlfriends user. Its in /User/Shared/Pictures and we both have a link to it. However, for some reason Photo Booth errors when I take a photo saying it can create folder /Users/mongrol/Pictures/Photo Booth. Permissions are both ok with both users able to write to it. Is there a way to change this save path?

 

[swiftaw]

How about this:
move your photobooth folder to the /shared/Pictures/
in your Pictures folder, put an alias called Photo Booth pointed to /shard/Pictures/Photo Booth

 

[mongrol]

That isn't going to work. I don't have a Pictures folder, I have a link to shared/pictures instead. You can't have a folder and a link with the same name . I also don't have a photobooth folder to move, since it can't create one.

 

[tyr2]

What type of link do you have. Is it an 'alias' (made with 'make alias' in the finder), or it is a 'symlink' (made with 'ln -s' in the Terminal).

If it's an alias then I expect that will be the cause of the problem. You can create a symlink by removing the alias and typing this in the Terminal (checking the paths are correct obviously) repeat for each user.

ln -s /Users/Shared/Pictures ~/Pictures

Hope this helps.

 

[mongrol]

Yep, got it working with a symlink. I didn't realise aliases were not the same as symlinks. Thanks folks.

 

[BrianFD3S]

What type of link do you have. Is it an 'alias' (made with 'make alias' in the finder), or it is a 'symlink' (made with 'ln -s' in the Terminal).

If it's an alias then I expect that will be the cause of the problem. You can create a symlink by removing the alias and typing this in the Terminal (checking the paths are correct obviously) repeat for each user.

ln -s /Users/Shared/Pictures ~/Pictures

Hope this helps.

Awesome, thanks a lot. I too was wondering why my aliases weren't working.. all sorted now.

Definitely worth dragging up a year old thread to thank you for this