Iphoto Opens and freezes whenever I....

[richgaccione]

turn on my external firewire hard drive.

it just started about a week ago and i havent made ANY changes to preferences that would effect iphoto AT ALL.

i have no idea.

i turn on my external Acom Data firewire hard drive, i can hear the drive being scanned or some sort of activity from the drive as it first connects to the computer, then suddenly Iphoto will pop open and think for a second then freeze, and i have to force quit it.

i DO NOT have iphoto set to open at login.
this happens every time and its quite annoying.
i dont even have any pictures on this drive.

im using a macbook pro 10.4.8, 1.83ghz intel core duo, 1.5gb RAM

any tips or help would be greatly appreciated.

i brought it to the applestore and had the "genius" look at it and they said nothing was wrong.

uh...ok.

Thanks!

 

[After G]

You probably have an folder on your external HD named "images", "dc_im" or something like that. This happened to me on old CF cards I repurposed as data storage (nobody uses CF on compact digital cameras anymore apparently).

If you can rename the folder, iPhoto won't pop open.

 

[richgaccione]

ok ill give it a try, thanks for the tip!

 

[richgaccione]

top.

external drive is free of any photo/folder/file extension that would have anything to do with iphoto.

is there an auto scan feature that can be turned off that i might have on or something?

this is getting annoying.

 

[After G]

The only thing I can think of that would autolaunch is the CD/DVD preference pane. Try changing the one that says iPhoto to "ignore".


You can also check the Image Capture application preferences. Change "iPhoto" to "No application"