It could be Adobe’s little media downloader thing that seems at least these days to get installed with everything Adobe ships. Personally it is a pain in the rear. Look for a camera icon in the system tray. You can go to Start Menu > Run > msconfig and go in there and fix it so that it doesn’t start up when you boot any more. This and getting rid of the digimarc plug-in are the first things I do after installing Adobe products and Photoshop (for the digimarc junk).
Robert
I see the camera icon in the systray, and it has an "X" by it. I’m pretty sure that this is because I have told Lightroom to "Do Nothing" when I insert a memory card. Beyond that, I’ve shut it off and still get the same Windows dialogue box, with only the two options mentioned before. Are you running PSCS3, Robert, or are you speculating?
This issue is not a deal-breaker; I’m enjoying some of the new features in PSCS3, but I would like to hear from others as to whether they are seeing this or not.
No I am running Windows Vista, PS CS3 Extended. When I remove the little Adobe junk thing so that it doesn’t even load (I don’t trust that that little X means it not doing something anyways. If it wasn’t it would show in the system tray) and have no problems with multiple options for CDs, Memory Cards, Flash Drives, etc.
Robert
This is from a post that I made in the Bridge forum, in case anybody is interested:
OK, I think I have a partial fix. In Bridge, go to Edit>Preferences>Startup Scripts, then uncheck Adobe Version Cue.
This has restored the previous Windows dialogue when I insert a CD or DVD in my DVD/CD drive.
However, I have new behavior when I insert a camera memory card in my card reader. Now I’m presented with the Bridge "Photo Downloader" dialogue. Uh, what if I don’t want Bridge involved in transferring photos from my camera card to my computer? I can’t find a place to disable this behavior.
Is anybody else seeing this? If not, I return you to your regularly-scheduled programming. However, I note that VERSION CUE is involved with this.
Bonjour,
Nick
Get rid of the little camera icon in the system tray. That is the Photo downloaded. Right click on it and tell it to exit. Then go to the start menu (Windows) do run then type in msconfig. Go to the start up panel and uncheck the adobe photo downloader. This way when you boot your computer it won’t load automatically.
Robert
Go to the start up panel and uncheck the adobe photo downloader.
There is no Adobe Photo Downloader in my start-up list, at least not by that name.
As Robert says but you are looking for ‘apdpoxy’ 🙂
Well, I found "apdproxy" and shut it off in the start-up list. The little camera icon is no longer in the systray, but the Photo Downloader still opens when I insert a memory card.
In that case I’d be tempted to go back to the startup folder and uncheck everything apart from things that you know for sure your system needs and that you recognise. Then see if that cures the problem. If it does, then (you guessed it) back to the startup folder and begin checking things one by one until the problem reappears. That way you will have isolated the problem.
I haven’t got CS3 installed yet – still waiting for the Postman to knock but have had this problem with other Adobe products. With that in mind, is there anything in Preferences that refer to this? That would be my first route followed by the startup folder routine. At least you’ve stopped the downloader from starting up in the system tray so you are heading in the right direction. Strange thing is though that disabling the ‘apdpoxy’ file cures it once and for all in Lightroom so perhaps they’ve got it as a double entry and another name for CS3.
Thanks, Alan. As for the Preferences, I see nothing (I’ve checked the prefs for Bridge and PSCS3) about turning off the downloader. There are instructions for using it in the Bridge Help files, but nothing about turning it off.
For now, I think I’ll just live with it, and leave well enough alone. I count myself among the fortunate who didn’t have installation problems, and wish you luck when your copy arrives.
It does seem odd to me, though, that Adobe gave us the option of turning off the downloader in Lightroom, but not in Bridge.
check with msconfig. something’s probably loading from a registry key.
Well, this is screwy as hell. After a system reboot, I’m back to the previous behavior when I insert a CD or DVD in my CD/DVD drive – the Windows dialog about "What do you want Windows to do?" only gives me the two options again (Download with Bridge CS3 or Take no action). If I insert a camera memory card into my card reader, I still get the Bridge Photo Downloader.
nick, i just looked at my removable drives in windows explorer. select the drive letter for the reader, right click and hit properties. go to "Autoplay". there should be an option for select Actions or prompt me each time. and under that should be a "reset defaults" button. select "prompt me each time" and then hit reset defaults and see if that helps you out. you may need to do this for all non-fixed drives.
I’m having the same problem. When looking at the "Autoplay" tab under Properties for each drive, however, clicking the "Prompt me each time" option grays out the "Reset Defaults" button, and the only two options shown are the Bridge download and "Take no action." I want all the options to appear. I get more options when I tell Windows Explorer that the drive in question contains music files (at least then I can view the files using Explorer), but then none of the image file options are available. It’s a PITA.
Unlike Lightroom, where you can change this behavior by disabling a startup option in msconfig, I find nothing in msconfig that points to Bridge.
Thanks, Dave, but they seem to have buried the solution deeper than that. On my machine, Bridge has hijacked the drop-down options for Pictures, Video Files, and Mixed Content. Very impolite, IMO.
ya nick. i’ve recently read here they’re discussing it over in the bridge forum.
Thanks. I went over there and saw a couple of threads about it, one of which I posted to a couple days ago. I haven’t read anything posted by an Adobe engineer, just the angry villagers with the torches.
just the angry villagers with the torches.
yar. thay’re lookin’ fer someone ta string up matey! 🙂
Funny thing is, since installing CS3 and getting through the install with no problems, I’ve been sidetracked with other things that have kept me from actually working in the program. I got around to doing some of that today, and I’m likin’ it. The Quick Selection/Refine stuff looks especially cool, and I’m sure I’ll find more as I go along. It runs pretty snappy on my box, which is always a concern with new releases. (I’m almost afraid to try the "New! Enhanced! HDR" feature; it’ll probably just piss me off and I’ll join the angry villagers again.)
8~)
