Photo Booth is an incredibly convenient app to take selfie photos and shoot videos with the front camera, it comes with multiple effects for users to have fun. The created videos and photos will be displayed along the bottom of its window, users can find and open the files easily. But sometimes we find the Photo Booth library missing or we just mistakenly delete the photo booth videos/photos, and get caught in panic.
No worries, to recover Photo Booth videos and photos, we’ve learned some practical methods, even to repair corrupted videos and photos from Photo Booth. Step by step, we want to share our experience with you.
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There are 2 ways to delete Photo Booth videos, therefore, where do the deleted Photo Booth videos or photos go will depend on how you deleted the files.
If you deleted the videos or photos directly in Photo Booth app as follows, you won’t be able to find the deleted files on your Mac anymore, because macOS has deleted the portal to access to those deleted files, unless you Undo Delete in this app.
If you deleted the videos or photos from Pictures folder of Photo Booth Library, and moved them to Trash bin as follows, you can find the deleted files in Trash bin.
In this part, we’ll show you 6 methods for deleted Photo Booth photos restoration.
Downloading data recovery software maybe the most convenient way for deleted Photo Booth photos restoration, no matter the photos are temporarily deleted, permanently deleted or missing on your Mac.
Cisdem Data Recovery is exactly the one you will need. This software quickly recovered videos and photos from Photo Booth. Furthermore, it has many other features: it recovers documents, photos, songs, videos, emails, archives, etc. from both internal and external hard drive on your Mac, also repairs videos, photo, documents in various formats, including the Photo Booth MOV videos.
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If you have created Time Machine backup before deleting the photo booth videos or photos, you can restore lost or missing photo booth files from the backup.
If you deleted the videos or photos directly in Photo Booth app, we can revert the Delete action to get back the Photo Booth videos or photos, immediately after we delete them on our Mac.
Newly deleted video or photo from photo booth is just moved into Trash bin on your Mac. Click and open Trash app to recover your photo booth files.
Here are steps for Photo Booth file recovery from Trash bin.
Cloud storage is adopted today so widely, because of its many benefits, including its versatility to sync across different devices and platforms. For a Mac user, he/she is much likely to use iCloud drive as extended storage, where you can share, backup and store your files online.
If you have backed up the photo booth videos or photos in your iCloud and haven’t synced yet, you can restore the deleted photo booth files from your Mac via iCloud backup.
Have you shared or uploaded your photo booth videos or photos to other platform or software? Try to log in that software or platform, and you can recover lost video or photo from it.
Take Facebook account as example. You can log in the platform to find the photo and download it to your Mac again.
Photo Booth videos or photos get corrupted and cannot be opened anymore? Don’t fret, as we mentioned above, Cisdem Data Recovery provide the feature to repair both damaged videos and pictures. For corrupted Photo Booth photos, it repairs automatically in the previewing process. For corrupted Photo Booth videos, Cisdem has a Video Repair tool to fix damaged videos in MOV, MP4 and so on.
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On Mac, photos taken by Photo Booth will be saved in following location by default:
/Users/Pictures/Photo Booth Library/Pictures
If you still feel confused to get access to these videos and pictures, continue reading the following tips to quickly find your Photo Booth files.
There are 3 methods to quickly find the videos/photos in your Photo Booth app.
Method 1: Check "Finder" App
Method 2: Go to "Folder" directly
Method 3: Search the "Photos"
In some cases, the photo booth videos or photos may be unintentionally stored in the Photos software rather than in the photo booth library. Following the steps to find out the videos or photos:
There are several possible reasons for Photo Booth videos not saving:
1. You didn’t press the Stop button to finish and save the shooting.
After pressing the Video button, Photo Booth will count backwards from 3 to 1 and starts the video shooting, but you need to press the red Stop button to save a Photo Booth video before closing the app.
2. There isn’t enough space on your Mac.
If your Mac runs out of space, the Photo Booth video may not be saved, and you have to remove unwanted files from your Mac to save new files.
3. There is a bug in current Photo Booth version.
In this case, you are recommended to update to the latest version.
After finding and recovering the Photo Booth files, I advise you to backup the videos or photos into other folder or storage device. Backup is always the effective way for keeping your files safe. Here are 3 convenient ways for backup.
Create a “New Folder” especially for photo booth videos/photos and drag out each file from the “Photo Booth” into this folder.
Open both Photos and Photo Booth app, then drag out the videos or photos taken from Photo Booth into Photos app.
Insert your external storage device into the Mac and backup all the photo booth files into it with Time Machine.
Losing cherished videos or photos taken by Photo Booth is very common, but fortunately we can get them back, restore via Mac built-in tool like Time Machine or Undo Delete. Even though we permanently deleted the files, we still have third party software like Cisdem Data Recovery to retrieve for us, it fixes corrupted Photo Booth videos and photos as well.
Connie has been writing for Mac productivity and utility apps since 2009. Each review and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.
