Ingest on Mac to Photos not PM

[mklass]

I'm running OS X 10.11.3 and PM 5.0 build 16960 on a 15" MacBook Pro.

I searched for this but could not find an answer: When inserting a memory card, how do I stop Mac Photos from opening and instead get the PM ingest dialog to open by default?

I do have cards from different cameras, and may use different car readers, depending on whether I am mobile or at my desk.

If there is already a thread on this, can you point me to it?

[schlotz]

Short answer, one of Apple's later updates borked things especially if you format your cards in the camera like most do (including me).  Canon and others, although surprisingly not Sony, reissue a new UUID to the card when reformatted.   Apple's OS reads the UUID, and new=run iphotos regardless of any previous settings inside of the ImageCapture app. Unless you reformat in the computer (not my recommendation) there is only a partial kludge, i.e. it will stop iphotos from popping up but you will need to manually bring up ingest inside of PM. Open a terminal window and do the following:

defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool YES

to reverse change YES to NO

Matt

[Mick O (Camera Bits)]

There is a lot of discussion in this thread:

http://forums.camerabits.com/index.php?topic=10021

Suggestions include disabling Photos altogether (by deleting contents of the package), or just disabling Image Capture as Matt says.   It's not a pretty situation.

[aknapik]

This works - found in a PetaPixel Article:

all you need to do is Open up Terminal, and enter the following line:

defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool YES

Then press Enter.

[tombearyphotography]

This works - found in a PetaPixel Article:

all you need to do is Open up Terminal, and enter the following line:

defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ImageCapture disableHotPlug -bool YES

Then press Enter.

Maybe a stupid question but how do you open up Terminal?

[ron_hiner]

How do you open up Terminal?

Command + Space, then type TERMINAL, press enter.