Photo Booth, Mountain Lion 10.8.2

[TheBoozer]

Upgraded to ML 10.8.2 with no problems except the following: My built-in camera is recognized by the system and is listed in system profiler undewr USB. It works fine with FaceTime and Messenger. However, when I start Photo Booth, the wheel keeps spinning and the app doesn't open. It seems that Photo Booth is unable to connect to the built-in camera regardless of the fact that the camera is listed in the Camera menu tab. But when I plugged in an exterernal USB camera, Photo Booth recongized the USB camera immediately, opened and worked fine.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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[TheBoozer]

Where are all the Apple Geniuses, no one has an answer or a comment?

[JezzerP]

Our apologies, but this site is run by volunteers, is not associated directly with Apple, and it was the weekend!!

If you do a search for "photobooth not working mountain lion" in Google, you will see that you are not alone in your problems. I'm afraid I am not a Photo Booth user, and my iSight camera is working fine. However, I performed a clean install of Mountain Lion rather than an upgrade, and from what I can gather from various other forum posts, those who have done a clean install appear to be OK and some upgraders are having problems. There also doesn't appear to be any solution that works reliably....I think you may have to wait for a fix from Apple.

[TheBoozer]

Thank you for your response. My install of Mountain Lion was also clean and I have spent many hours searching Google, unfortunately none of the suggestions worked. It is not a big problem and I can live with it until some solution shows up.

Thank you again for taking the time to respond.