Holy cow! My wish was granted and I got The Flip for Christmas! Thanks, Dave! Of course, I captured the Christmas joy right away. I had one issue though – for the love of all things holy why the freak did this thing always want to launch and import into iPhoto?

(sigh) I mean come on.

On a PC, you just plug the device into your USB thing and it launches the Flip Share application, which allows easy start and stop editing and YouTube uploading. On a Mac, The Flip launches iPhoto. WTF? Worse, once it imports your Flip footage, it converts it to a file format that Flip Share doesn’t recognize. Quality.

I was freaking out and so hubby figured out how/where to turn this auto destruction launch function off. Sweet man.

Attention Mac-loving Flip-users, the preference setting for this is not where you think it is. Here’s how to stop your Flip from auto-launching iPhoto and cramping your style:

  1. Plug in your Flip
  2. From Applications, open Image Capture
  3. Select Preferences, then change open “iPhoto” to open “No Application”

Like this:

keep your flip from launching iPhoto and making you cry

Ah! Doesn’t that feel better? Now you can go on with your Flip-tastic self.  And if you found this by Googling it, congrats! All I found when I Googled this issue was some dude on Amazon.com saying you could stop it in iPhoto preferences. LIAR!

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]
Share
This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.