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Hello! Can someone help me to prevent an application from auto-connecting a camera?
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<blockquote data-quote="mkphoto" data-source="post: 1808676" data-attributes="member: 401355"><p>I have an update and wondered if you guys who have already commented could help by any chance? </p><p></p><p>I just got this email from the softwares support team. The software I am trying to block connecting to the camera is called 'Controls'.</p><p></p><p>"on mac we use same drivers as the nikon software. Renaming drivers would maybe help. We do not block the camera, however we kill some processes that allow others to communicate with the camera. So that we have the actual access, which is the designed way to operate. If you were able to rename the PTPCamera to something else, it won't be killed by controls". </p><p></p><p>So I was wondering if I renamed the 'com.apple.PTPCamera.plist' file whether this would stop 'Controls' from connecting to my Nikon camera? Would it also stop my other software from connecting too? I will test this shortly to see what happens.</p><p></p><p>Would entering this into Terminal also work, be a better way of achieving this?</p><p></p><p>defaults -currentHost write com.apple.PTPCamera.plist disableHotPlug -bool YES</p><p></p><p>And this one to go back to default:</p><p>defaults -currentHost write com.apple.PTPCamera.plist disableHotPlug -bool NO</p><p></p><p>Another solution I was considering was to use Parallels, running the 3rd party Camera software in the Microsoft space and disabling the Mac space which has 'Controls' on it from connecting any devices. Could this also be an option?</p><p></p><p>Any help greatly appreciated as always.</p><p></p><p>Thanks, Mark</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mkphoto, post: 1808676, member: 401355"] I have an update and wondered if you guys who have already commented could help by any chance? I just got this email from the softwares support team. The software I am trying to block connecting to the camera is called 'Controls'. "on mac we use same drivers as the nikon software. Renaming drivers would maybe help. We do not block the camera, however we kill some processes that allow others to communicate with the camera. So that we have the actual access, which is the designed way to operate. If you were able to rename the PTPCamera to something else, it won't be killed by controls". So I was wondering if I renamed the 'com.apple.PTPCamera.plist' file whether this would stop 'Controls' from connecting to my Nikon camera? Would it also stop my other software from connecting too? I will test this shortly to see what happens. Would entering this into Terminal also work, be a better way of achieving this? defaults -currentHost write com.apple.PTPCamera.plist disableHotPlug -bool YES And this one to go back to default: defaults -currentHost write com.apple.PTPCamera.plist disableHotPlug -bool NO Another solution I was considering was to use Parallels, running the 3rd party Camera software in the Microsoft space and disabling the Mac space which has 'Controls' on it from connecting any devices. Could this also be an option? Any help greatly appreciated as always. Thanks, Mark [/QUOTE]
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