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Help! Does anyone know how to disable the new 'Photos' app from opening every time I plug in a card? I've searched the net with no luck, lots of advice about iPhoto, but not Photos. It was so annoying I just went to delete the thing and this popped up...

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Thanks in advance. Steven
 
Open the Image Capture app and choose what you want to happen when camera/card is attached.
 
I have tried that, but as soon as you format the card you have the same problem again. It's very annoying! Hopefully there will be an update soon with an option to disable the auto open thing.
 
Formatting the card doesn't make any difference, I always format my cards and OS X behaves as it always has.
 
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Well you say it doesn't make any difference but it does on my mac. I put the card in, the photos app opens, so I close it then go to Image capture and set the preference to 'do nothing', then it works as it should when I insert and remove the card. I then format the card, the app thinks its a card that has never been inserted before so opens again.

I meant an update to include an option in that app, not having to go into image capture.

You reckon that the app should recognise a formatted card as one it already knows the preference for? That would be good, but my system is not reacting like that.
 
You say you're selecting the preference to 'do nothing', the correct selection should be to select "No Application" in the pop-up menu in the Device Settings - you've probably just mistyped the above, but I thought it best to clarify. (Related Apple support info.)

Otherwise I can't really add anything to help. I'm also running OS 10.10.3 and many years ago, and many OS's ago, I set up my Mac to open Photo Mechanic when a CF card is inserted and it has done this without fail; I also reformat my cards (in camera) after every import. (Photos has never been opened by me or any other device.)

Sorry I've no magic solution to your woes, I hope you get it sorted soon. Unhelpfully, 'it just works' for me.
 
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Curiouser.I wrote that from my iPad but now when I check Image Capture on my Mac [OSX 10.10.3] I no longer have a Preferences in the menu! If you previously had iPhoto installed it is still there and you can set the action in Preferences/General. [in Aperture, if you have that, Preferences/Import]. If you have converted your iPhoto library to Photos I think the original is still on your hard drive or you can create a new empty one by Option Clicking on the app and then access the Preferences.

I did not notice that Photos does not offer a choice of actions on attaching a camera which is obviously very annoying.
 
TonyHall said:
You say you're selecting the preference to 'do nothing', the correct selection should be to select "No Application" in the pop-up menu in the Device Settings - you've probably just mistyped the above, but I thought it best to clarify. (Related Apple support info.)

Otherwise I can't really add anything to help. I'm also running OS 10.10.3 and many years ago, and many OS's ago, I set up my Mac to open Photo Mechanic when a CF card is inserted and it has done this without fail; I also reformat my cards (in camera) after every import. (Photos has never been opened by me or any other device.)

Sorry I've no magic solution to your woes, I hope you get it sorted soon. Unhelpfully, it 'just works' for me.
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Sorry, you're right Tony, I meant 'No Application'.

Thanks for the reply. So, the Photos app has never opened on your system when you've plugged a card in? My guess was that Apple made it really persistent so people would just use it as then they can sell prints through it.
 
I did not realise that the disclosure triangle at bottom right in Image Capture is not visible unless a card/camera is present! When a card is inserted Photos app in the Iport view has a check box against "Open Photos for this device" which I guess you need to uncheck BUT I see fron the phrasing that maybe that will treat each SD card as a different device so maybe iPhoto preferences is your best chance of solving this problem.
 
gibtheo said:
So, the Photos app has never opened on your system when you've plugged a card in? My guess was that Apple made it really persistent so people would just use it as then they can sell prints through it.
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Nope, Photos has never opened on my machine.

I'd delete it if I could (the OS won't allow it easily...so I've read) but it's useful to have sitting there as the OS will periodically update it's RAW format database for newly released cameras, and this allows the OS to render RAW files (occasionally useful for me).

Have you tried searching the Apple support forums?
 
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sphexx said:
I did not realise that the disclosure triangle at bottom right in Image Capture is not visible unless a card/camera is present! When a card is inserted Photos app in the Iport view has a check box against "Open Photos for this device" which I guess you need to uncheck BUT I see fron the phrasing that maybe that will treat each SD card as a different device so maybe iPhoto preferences is your best chance of solving this problem.
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Yep, you're right. The option is there in Image Capture when a card is in. It treats every card I put in as a new device, not a problem if it remembered them even after they were formatted, but it doesn't.

I have never used iPhoto but the preference in it is set to not open on connecting a camera/card. Ah well, I'll just have to keep closing the app when it tries to open.
 
I have just tried setting Photos to open with an SD card then unchecking "Open Photos for this device" in Photos. I formatted the card in the camera and re-inserted and Photos did not open. When I open Photos the box was unchecked so it had recognised it as the same device despite formatting.
 
I had a quick Google...all the solutions talk about using Image Capture, but this article was different and talks about a checkbox in the Photos app.
 
OK, thanks for that information. It seems like it some strange anomaly on my system. Great! haha. I'll keep tinkering and see what happens. Thanks for your input though guys.
 
TonyHall said:
I had a quick Google...all the solutions talk about using Image Capture, but this article was different and talks about a checkbox in the Photos app.
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Thanks for looking, it just isn't working for me, I'm sure that it would work with a phone or whatever, but when I format the card it pops up again. Maybe it's the way the camera is formatting, I'm formatting in camera on a 7D mk2. I'll try with my 7D later when I get chance.

Thanks again guys.
 
gibtheo said:
but when I format the card it pops up again. Maybe it's the way the camera is formatting, I'm formatting in camera on a 7D mk2. I'll try with my 7D later when I get chance.
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I use a 5D mk3 so probably similar.

Have you tried ye olde solution of rebooting your Mac? It's weird, but it often works. Or repairing disk permissions (another bit of Mac voodoo that shouldn't have an impact, but often does). My advice is getting a little desperate now. :)
 
+1 for repairing permissions.
 
What's the first thing you do after you've mounted a memory card? Open Lightroom, Capture One or some other app? Can you set Image Capture to do that instead, and then toggle it off. At best it may fix something, or at worst you'll end up with card insertion opening a useful app.
 
If you want to delete Photos, create a root user, log out, then log into the root user and it should let you.
 
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