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I keep seeing experts tell us to go to preferences in iPhoto and go to advanced......my preferences does not show an advanced tab....any suggestions?

iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on May 3, 2016 6:33 AM

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Posted on May 3, 2016 6:47 AM

Which version of iPhoto are you using? iPhoto '11 has advanced Preferences.


What are you trying to do? Which feature is missing in your iPhoto version?


Or are you using the new Photos for mac insteaad of iPhoto?


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May 3, 2016 9:57 AM in response to johnfromgermantown

It says version 1.5.

You want the new Photos for Mac stop from launching, when you connect a camera or iPhone?


When Photos opens after you connect your camera or iPhone, disable the checkmark "Open Photos for this device". The checkmark will be below the toolbar on the left side of the Photos window. Then quit Photos, don't force quit, or it will not write the preferences file.

This checkmark will prevent Photos from opening until you format the card in the camera. Everytime you reformat the card, Photos will see it as a new device and open by default.


Otherwise just ignore Photos, you are not forced to use it. Uninstalling Photos is not simple.

Uninstalling Photos requires to disable the System Integrity Protection of your Mac.

The Photos.app is just a small wrapper calling processes and frameworks that are deeply integrated into the system. Photos itself has just 54 MB, that is smaller than a single, high resolution RAW photo, while iPhoto with 1.7GB had more then 30 times the size of Photos.

Uninstalling Photos will not free any storage, but modify the system and may cause problems with applications that are relying on its presence.

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