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How do I prevent iPhoto launching when I sync my iPhone?
When I connect my iPhone, it launches iPhoto... which takes forever to load. I can't figure out how to turn launching iPhoto off.
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Peter - this solution isn't particularly granular, and as such has (obvious) repercussions:
If you launch Image Capture and open up the preferences, you'll find a place to specify whether to launch Image Capture, iPhoto, or DO NOTHING when a camera is attached. Selecting the latter should solve your iPhone+iPhoto woes.
Apparently, while iTunes recognizes the many-splendid-thing that is your iPhone, to iPhoto, it's 'just another pretty camera'. ;)
You may well have known of this and been unwilling to manually launch iPhoto for other cameras, but this worked for me. Lemme know if you find it acceptable or find anything better...
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Inappropriate?Peter - this solution isn't particularly granular, and as such has (obvious) repercussions:
If you launch Image Capture and open up the preferences, you'll find a place to specify whether to launch Image Capture, iPhoto, or DO NOTHING when a camera is attached. Selecting the latter should solve your iPhone+iPhoto woes.
Apparently, while iTunes recognizes the many-splendid-thing that is your iPhone, to iPhoto, it's 'just another pretty camera'. ;)
You may well have known of this and been unwilling to manually launch iPhoto for other cameras, but this worked for me. Lemme know if you find it acceptable or find anything better...
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Brendon, I know you've addressed this a year back -but I still have a problem. I'm using windows XP. Earlier, when I connected my Iphone to my laptop the first thing that synced were the photos. So, I have a huge amount of photos in my "iphone Photos" folder in my laptop. Once these photos got on my laptop, I erased them from my iphone. Now, for some strange reason, new photos in the "camera roll" of my iphone refuse to transfer to my laptop. Everytime I try the "sync photos" process through itunes, it simply transfers the old photo album onto my iphone! How do I get the new photos onto my laptop!! Please help -
Inappropriate?If you tell iTunes not to sync photos at all in the preferences for your iPhone, will that do it? I haven't tried this, but it seems as though it wouldn't launch iPhoto if it knew you didn't want to sync photos.1 Comment Add a comment
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Lane- the launching of iPhoto relates to it wanting to pull photos from the camera portion of your iPhone, and has nothing to do with photo syncing (dropping existing photos onto your phone.) So I don't THINK this will do it. :( But I haven't tried either, so it's possible. :)
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Inappropriate?I was so glad I found your help on this. For me more then anything, it was frustrating that iPhoto opened every time I connected my iPhone. There should be a menu item in the "Settings" part of your iPhone to stop this from happening. I did exactly as you recommended and it worked perfect! Thank you.
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Inappropriate?Thanks Brendon, your instructions worked perfectly. The only difference is that when I went to Image Capture Preferences I did not have an option of DO NOTHING. I use Leopard and my selection was No Application. Same thing, most all would have figured that out. THANKS!!!1 Comment Add a comment
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Edwin- thanks for the clarification... my instructions were written before I had leopordized my machine. :)
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Inappropriate?I'm late to hope on the iPhone train, but it's great to know this help is still here, thanks for the idea Brendon, works great!
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Inappropriate?Uh.... What's image capture? Where do I find it and how do I launch it?
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Inappropriate?Dear "dumbass" - no worries!
Image Capture is a built in application in Mac OS X to handle, appropriately, the capture of images, whether from Cameras, flatbed or slide scanners, etc. Or at least those it has drivers for. ;)
When attaching a camera, you can actually choose to automatically use either iPhoto OR image capture, depending on whether you just want to pull images off, or whether you want iPhoto to manage a fancy-pant library for you.
As far as where to find it... it's in your main applications folder:
/TheNameOfYourHardDrive/Applications
The Applications folder should also be available by default in the sidebar of any open finder windows. AND, when in doubt, use spotlight (the magnifying glass in upper right hand corner or hit apple-space by default) - just type in "Image Capture" and let your mac find it for you. :)
Double click it and rock and roll per the instructions above.
Hope that helps...
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Thank you so much Brendon! I love Macs but iPhoto is the one application where I understand the venom they can generate among detractors about the computer assuming you want things done another way than you do. iPhoto doesn't guess right about me at all and I feel locked in and very angry every time I have to use it. It makes me like Apple less because it seems like it's trying to get between me and my data. Great to know about Image Capture, which sounds like it's about getting the files not about "managing" them. Flickr is my photo album, so iPhoto is not the app for me.
Now if we could just get the iPhone to email exif information... ;) -
Inappropriate?Brendon I love you!
Such a simple solution to a problem that was causing me to string expletives every time I plugged my iphone in.
On behalf of technopeasants everywhere, I'd like to thank you effusively and wholeheartedly.
You are my hero!
I’m ecstatic!
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