Stop your iPhone from auto-launching iPhoto (or Aperture, etc.)

I have a G4, now have an iphone. It used to open iphoto and I could download all the photos right away.

I just upgraded the G4 to Jaguar, and now iphoto keeps crashing. any ideas on why. obviously, I'm not tech savvy, or photo savvy.
& I really need to get these photos off my phone.

thanks for any assistance.

I'll admit that I didn't look at the code (and probably should before making a snide comment) but...
why couldn't he have just used an "else" statement?
- IF its an iPhone do nothing
- ELSE launch iPhoto

one thing that might seem obvious but for some reason i failed to understand or think through... i wanted some pictures on my phone all the time. i just didn't grasp that i could sync them off the phone, create a new folder/group in iphoto, then sync that new folder/group back to the phone. that way, they are on the phone under 'photos' for when i want to show someone a photo but iphoto doesn't open up because the camera roll is empty.

This is ridiculous. Just set Image Capture to not open iPhoto when a camera/phone s connected. Then when you WANT to import pics off your device, open iPhoto. Lazy, just plain lazy.

Hmm, I sync photos to my iPhone with iPhoto and it never automatically opens for me.

Sam Stephenson was the one that posted the fix. I don't event know whot Matt Radel is...they don't work over at 37signals.

Why don't you just choose to not have the photos sync with iPhoto in the iPhone preferences in iTunes? Thatway you can open up iPhoto and import when you want, but plugging in you iPhone doesn't trigger the app to open? No script is needed unless I'm missing something here...?

@Elliot,

I DO have FF set to the default browser in Safari, but apps still launch web pages in safari (AARRGGHH), rather than the already/always open FF. Any ideas... Running 10.5.2. thanks

As for iPhone not opening iPhoto, i'd love that. But i'm a n00b, AND lazy, so this sounds complicated to me. But i'll give it a shot. Any other geniuses with other ideas, i'd love to hear 'em... thanks

I actually had the opposite problem. I long ago told iPhoto to ignore my camera--sometimes I want to use iPhoto in the regular fashion, sometimes I want to use Image Capture to just get a recent shot or two, sometimes I just want to get some files straight off the CF card. Once I got my iPhone, I couldn't for the life of me find out how to get the pictures I had taken with the phone *onto* my Mac. iTunes shows how to do everything else, including putting pictures onto the phone, but getting the pics off remained a mystery. After much googling, I called Apple's support number, and after talking to someone who is wholly unqualified to work for Apple support, I did some more googling and eventually found the answer--go to Image Capture and use THAT to tell the OS to use iPhoto when I plug in the phone. Talk about convoluted!

YAY! I've been hoping for something like this. I hated that iPhone launched iPhoto EVERY time, but I also hated that if I changed that then plugging in my camera did nothing.

This is perfect, and I hope when I get home I can modify it to work with my camera.

As to Mario - I plug in the iPhone daily (or more) to sync and recharge, but I really don't bother downloading images on a daily basis (or even monthly) and only want to deal with that when I am already having an iPhoto session.

The iPhone does so much more than photos that it is really like a little "secondary feature" I only want to pay attention to when I have time.