Control Camera Launch - Mac Tips Daily! #299
When you connect your iPhone or camera to your Mac, iPhoto automatically launches (if you have iLife). Several iPhone users have emailed me to ask how to stop iPhoto from launching. It's pretty easy to do, but the answer may not be where you think it is.
Let's get to it:
1. Open 'Applications' and launch 'Image Capture'.
2. Next, go to 'Image Capture -> Preferences.
3. Select 'When a camera is connected, open:
and choose 'No Application.
4. Select 'OK'and you are all done.
Now iPhoto won't launch when you attach your iPhone or your digital camera. To import images in the future, simply launch iPhoto and import from there.
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I don't understand why Mac can't put the application preferences in one place like Windows does. I shouldn't have to go to Safari to change the default browser, and I certainly shouldn't have to go to Image Capture to stop iPhoto from starting. I may 'just work', but in a convoluted way.
Image Capture is just the app that iPhoto uses to import your photos. I agree that the setting should be able to be changed from iPhoto, since that is where you use it most. However, I must correct you on the rest.
Windows doesn't actually have a common place for application preferences. It does have a Control Panel that's somewhat analogous to OS X's System Preferences which controls features of the OS, not the aplications you run.
All OS X applications have their Preferences in the same place on the menu. In Windows, preferences are not always even called 'preferences', and aren't always in the same spot on the menu (not even across Microsoft apps). Which do you think is more convoluted?