iPhoto launching upon flash drive insert

Hi, Does the flash drive have the name or a directory called DCIM? it seems that by default if a USB device has a folder or name of DCIM, it will automatically recognise it as a device that has photos to import. Possible way to avoid this: if you are copying files from devices such as a camera or SD card, don't copy the folder named DCIM. Just move the files. In iPhoto, there is a setting under iPhoto:Preferences:General:Connecting camera opens... Can you set that to No Application? Hope this helps!

I just did some experimentation with this because I wanted to make archives of my SD cards. I made a disk image and put some images in a folder called DCIM and it didn't appear in iPhoto immediatley. The proof of how this works is make a DOS disk image through disk utility with a Master Boot Record format, create a folder called DCIM and place an image inside that folder. If the disk is already mounted, unmount it by ejecting it. Next time you open the disk image, its like you plugged a camera in. If you need more details about how this works, your welcome to ask more questions.

Sorry... Just one more post. Just to prove Im completely crazy, I tried this the same way but changing the disk image format to Mac OS X Extended and it works the same way. As long as the image or device has a folder called DCIM and has an image contained in the DCIM folder. :P

Hmmm... Interesting. What format is the flash drive?

Mabe Try this... Would be interesting to look at the file system...

Open Terminal.app and type the following...

cd /Volumes

cd /path to your flash drive

ls -la

Maybe theres some hidden files that cant be seen? Have you formatted the drive since you got it?

I was having the EXACT same problem. Happened since the most recent OS X update to 10.6.4
I tried the "no application" step and that worked. Since I plug in my flash drive a whole lot more often than my camera, I'll take that trade-off.