Stop iPhoto from Launching when you Connect your Camera
It took me a bit of digging to find this, so I thought I may as well spread the word here. I’ve started using Adobe Lightroom for managing my photos, but every time I connect my camera or card reader to import photos, iPhoto would launch, and I couldn’t figure out where I could change that. I finally discovered that the setting is in the Image Capture application. Run that, then go to Preferences and you’ll find it there. Why they wouldn’t also put it in iPhoto, Lightroom, or even on a preferences panel is beyond me.
July 10th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
THANK YOU!!! IT HELPED ME A LOOOOT!!!
Thanks!
July 16th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
thank god for google and for you. that auto launch was driving me mad.
August 11th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
That was quick to find this thread and kill the auto iPhoto import! Thank you from me too!!!
September 18th, 2007 at 7:02 am
OS X thinks the iPhone is a camera and was launching iPhoto every time I synced. Thank you for finding this.
October 7th, 2007 at 11:49 am
OMG thank you soo much I was so sick everytime I plugged my camera in bloody iPhoto popped up :D
October 20th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Thank you so much! I sure wish the people who designed iLife had made this easier, it’s a big nuisance.
November 30th, 2007 at 7:32 am
heroic, cheers!
switching to lightroom too, and this was such a pain to find…
January 8th, 2008 at 11:27 am
So many thanks !
It almost save my life :-)
February 10th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Yeah, that problem was annoying and the fix was obscure, here is a video of your fix for anyone who learns by seeing :)
http://www.4tay.com/blogs/Adam_Parker/Tutorial_%231_-_Stop_iPhoto_Auto_Launch/1/1/645/
Thanks for the tip.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Perfect! Thank you for having a quick answer to this issue.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
OH MY GOD! Thanks!
The iPhone auto-launch thing was so irritating, I thought I was going to have an aneurism. Thanks for digging this one up!
thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou
October 17th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Thanks so much for posting this info. Apple should make it easier, especially with the iPhone.
January 5th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Wow, yeah, thanks. Very helpful; I didn’t want iPhoto to launch every time I tried to sync my iPhone.
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:03 pm
awesome thanks!
February 7th, 2009 at 11:55 am
w00t!
July 10th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Thanks super helpful…… I hate iphoto.
April 9th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
So does anyone know why the camera doesn’t come up on my finder under devices? I’ve turned off the auto launch and it is still not showing.
April 10th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you! That was driving me nuts!!!
May 10th, 2010 at 9:26 am
thank fuck for that!I hated that soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. Thanks!