A friend of mine emailed me today and asked me why his software, Adobe Photoshop Album Starter, opens every time he connects his iPod to his computer. His computer and his software are trying to be helpful, but most of the time in this situation I’ve never thought it was being helpful. Here’s how you try and stop it.
I’m pretty certain this issue is due to a couple of different things happening. You’ve told your iPod to work and function like an external storage device (basically like another USB thumb drive or external hard drive). And/or you’ve asked Adobe Photoshop Album Starter to scan any drives looking for image content to add to your album.
I believe there are a couple of things you can do if I remember iTunes and my iPod correctly. I haven’t had one in a number of years and haven’t had iTunes installed since.
I believe there’s a setting within iTunes that you set to tell the computer to recognize your iPod as a storage device. Look for this setting in Options or Preferences and switch it off. That is unless you do want to use your iPod as a storage device.
Next I would go into your Start-Up folder and make sure that your Adobe software isn’t included in that folder. You can also look for settings within the Adobe software that are telling it to scan your hard drives automatically for new content. If you can find a setting like that, turn it off.
If you really want to make sure it’s not going to startup you can also open up msconfig and make sure everything is checked or unchecked as needed to not start on startup. You can read this earlier post of mine with instructions on how to use the msconfig controls.
