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I connected my camera to my computer, and Photos immediately started importing pictures. How do I stop this? I don't see anything in the preferences to accomplish this.
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
When the Import panel in Photos opens, you should see a checkmark in the toolbar "Open Photos for the device". Disable this checkmark and Photos should not open again for this camera (until you reformat the card).
The automatic launch can only be disabled for each camera separately.
You may want to try this fix: This Terminal command will disable the auto start of any photo application, not just Photos.
defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool YES
Restart the Mac . it should not be necessary, but it only worked for me after restarting.
I found this fix in a post by JadedEye (to léonie)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7176882?answerId=29506561022#29506561022
When the Import panel in Photos opens, you should see a checkmark in the toolbar "Open Photos for the device". Disable this checkmark and Photos should not open again for this camera (until you reformat the card).
The automatic launch can only be disabled for each camera separately.
You may want to try this fix: This Terminal command will disable the auto start of any photo application, not just Photos.
defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool YES
Restart the Mac . it should not be necessary, but it only worked for me after restarting.
I found this fix in a post by JadedEye (to léonie)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7176882?answerId=29506561022#29506561022
How to stop Photos from automatically importing
