Comments on: Automating Photo Booth and iPhoto

By: Bonnie Bouman

Bonnie Bouman — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:18:36 +0000

The Automator workflow fails with this error: “Take Picture failed – 1 error. The action had a timeout waiting for the new image file to appear in the Photo Booth folder in the Pictures folder (-2700).” This may be because Photo Booth used to save a recents.plist file in the /Pictures/Photo Booth/ directory, but now saves it in the /Library/Application Support/Photo Booth/ directory. So Automator doesn’t know the picture has been taken. Do you know how we would update this?

After poking around I found the line “set the prefs_file to ((image_folder as Unicode text) & “Recents.plist”) as alias” inside a main.applescript file under /~/Desktop/Take Picture Project Files. But if I try to add the Library path, it won’t compile… and now we are way beyond my paygrade. Any ideas?

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:51:03 +0000

was wondering how to loop the application?

By: JP

JP — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:37:34 +0000

Here’s another neat implementation. Similates a kiosk photo booth.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/photostrip.html

By: dragos

dragos — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:24:59 +0000

Hi,

1. Dunno what went wrong… Maybe you are using the computer on a non-privilieged account? Are there any other people are using the computer on different accounts? I never stumbled across this…
2. If you want to copy the photos, you can use Finder actions. There are two actions: “Copy FInder Items” and “Move Finder Items”. As always, you can use default parameters, or pop up a window to select the destination.

you’re welcome

By: Juanfer2k

Juanfer2k — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:43:22 +0000

Thanks a lot, when i trid it, i found 2 issues:
1. the app ask the password something like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_cerrito_valle/380057585/
2. if i don’t want to import the pics on iPhoto, but save them on a specific folder, what should i do?
again, thanks!