Q: How can I permanently disable Photos.app?

It would seem that Apple has transformed it's culture from "Think Different" to "Uniformity Above All Else."

 

Remember that 1984 Super Bowl ad? It would appear that Steve Jobs has become the giant floating head, and millions of Apple product users are willing to blindly accept whatever the head tells them. :-\

I did business with Apple back in the 1980s.  I remember going to their offices and they had a flag flying out front.... A pirate flag !!! 

The mind reels. Yours is the only solution on the entire known interwebs. Does nobody at Apple format memory cards? I guess they all use Photos.

Reminds me of when Aperture came out in late 2005. All originals had to be in the library, not on an external HD. Were they thinking professionals that could fill up a standard 120GB hard drive in one shoot would be able to use this "professional" app? At least they changed it within a few months, not fast enough for Lightroom Beta to come in and swoop most of us up.

Thanks.

I tried to mark my SD card to not open Photos app, multiple times, but no avail. This virus is coming up.

I removed Photos now completely, thanks for the hint.

Why? Just read the reviews of Photos app. My Photos was crashing all time after seconds, because the library became to large, Apple support said. --- The same Library runs fine in iPhoto. And since when is crashing a correct user feedback?

And this error message when the SD card was inserted, it is a clear sign of bloatware. Poor Apple!

CoreForce wrote:

I removed Photos now completely, thanks for the hint.

Note that if you just removed /Applications/Photo.app you did not remove everything associated with it.

In which respect do you think this should be a helpful comment?

CoreForce wrote:

In which respect do you think this should be a helpful comment?

There are up to seven other processes that I know of that support Photos that may be running in the background, even when the app itself is not running. (This I believe is one reason the app is so tiny compared to iPhoto or Aperture.) I don't know how this would affect system performance or stability if the app has been removed, but I think it is something worth considering if any issues crop up, particularly after a system update.

Not all removed OSX Apps can be found in Appstore/Purchases, some are coming back with the (Combo) update or reinstall Yosemite: Photos

In the case of Photos you will see that you do not save much space, but in my situation I removed it to avoid the consitently "mingling in" of Photos

The following are the entries of Photos:

/Applications/Photos.app    30MB

˜/Library/Containers/com.apple.Photos  328KB

/Library/ApplicationSupport/Apple/Photos    (this is a folder)  151MB

˜Library/Caches/com.apple.helpd/SMDHelpData/Other/English/HelpSDMindexFile/com.a pple.Photos.help      36KB

˜/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpd/Generated/com.apple.Photos.help     141KB.

Lex

edit:  I only removed the Photos.app with the Terminal command discussed earlier.

PS: Garageband I never need, and I removed all entries which made about 3GB free.

You can also find a Photos Agent app in System/Library/CoreServices/ plus a photolibraryd & several other related items in System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/.

Apple has been moving processes that once were in apps into system level services & frameworks, among other things to increase security & reduce bloat by making these services available to multiple apps.

Indeed, but these should not be removed....

LexSchellings wrote:

Indeed, but these should not be removed....

My point is that you can't completely avoid a certain (& probably unpredictable) amount of "mingling" unless you remove everything associated with the app. That, as you say, is not advisable.

Personally, I would never trust a hacked system to do anything with anything important to me -- & no matter how you spin it, this is a hack -- but that is just me.

Right. In my situation, I use Lightroom for years and years (now V6), and I do not want Photos popping up everytime I connect a camera or iPhone or.., so I deleted the Photos app. no issues after that ever. I left the "core.." things, because I do not want to mess around in that-

I also removed Garageband, Chess, GameCenter, MidiSetup, and the lousy MigrationAssistant. No issues ever.

But I do not recommend any of this. I did it but only because I really did not want them.

Lex

LexSchellings wrote:

... and I do not want Photos popping up everytime I connect a camera or iPhone or..

So setting Image Capture to something other than to open Photos did not work for you?

No it did not. Until 10.10.3 i used it, but it did not work well enough. I removed all that I did not want.

In 10.10.4 I did not even try.

LexSchellings wrote:

No it did not. Until 10.10.3 i used it, but it did not work well enough.

I'm not sure what you mean by "well enough," but depending on what you do, it could be a sign of some obscure problem with your installed system.