As one of the pre-installed apps in macOS, Photo Booth is incredibly convenient to take funny selfies and videos with Mac’s camera. A Photo Booth video or picture usually is displayed at the bottom of its main interface, users can find and browse easily. But if yours are missing, or you’ve deleted them by mistake, you need to know how to recover the Photo Booth videos or pictures from a Mac.
Actually, we’ve got a few options, and for users who already had a first bite of newly released macOS Sequoia Beta, these options work as well.
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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.
You may feel irritating when accidentally deleting a video that you’ve spent a long time on the recording, especially after several failure attempts to get it back. But rest assured that here we enlist the best feasible solutions to recover a deleted Photo Booth video, no matter how you delete it.
Downloading data recovery software maybe the most convenient way for deleted Photo Booth videos restoration, no matter the videos 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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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.
How to Recover Corrupted Photo Booth Videos on Mac?
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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.
If the Photo Booth videos are deleted by removing from Photo Booth library, they are just moved into Trash bin on your Mac. Click and open Trash app to recover your photo booth files.
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? If yes, try to search from your media gallery and re-download to your Mac.
Take Facebook account as example:
When you finish recording a video in Photo Booth, , normally, the video will be automatically saved in the library. If your Photo Booth videos go disappeared, following 3 methods are useful to quickly find the missing videos/photos.
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:
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 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.
Tip 1: Export videos or images from Photo Booth to Finder folder
Create a “New Folder” especially for photo booth videos/photos and drag out each file from the “Photo Booth” into this folder.
Tip 2: Move videos/photos into Photos app
Open both Photos and Photo Booth app, then drag out the videos or photos taken from Photo Booth into Photos app.
Tip 3: Backup to external storage device via Time Machine
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 in 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.
Connie Yu has been a columnist in the field of data recovery since 2011. She studied a lot of data loss situations and tested repeatedly to find a feasible solution tailored for each case. And her solutions are always updated to fix problems from the newest systems, devices and apps.
Mike Kohler
Yesterday I cleared all the videos and photos from Photo Booth by mistake. Will I be able to get them all back through this Cisdem app?
Bettye Mucha
Lucky to be able to restore the videos, because I spent hours on recording a satisfying video and it was so frustrating when I realised the video was deleted by mistake. Time Machine backup is the last but the best defense against data loss. Thanks for your informative guide.
James C. Weir
Don't know why my photo booth video became corrupted and could not be played, just dropped it into your app and it fixed the video, absolutely surprised me a lot.