Stop iPhoto From Starting When You Attach A Camera Or Card To Your Mac In OSX

It is sort of nice that OSX automatically starts up iPhoto when you attach a camera to your mac (Macbook, iMac, G5, MacBook Pro, MacPro). That is until you want it to do something else. Then, it becomes incredibly annoying.

I recently wanted my mac to start up Adobe Photoshop Lightroom instead of iPhoto without prompting when I attached a CF card or digital camera.

The way to change this is to go:

Applications —–> Image Capture ——> On the Image Capture Menu scroll down to Preferences

In the General Menu you will see “when camera is connected, open: ”

This is where you choose iPhoto, no application, or in my case I went to “other” and then navigated to the Lightroom Application on my hard drive.

Now when I attach a camera to my mac, Lightroom automatically starts up and not iPhoto.