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EOS UTILITY PROBLEM RE: 'PHOTOS' on a 400D

Started Apr 23, 2020 | Discussions thread
mdmarqphoto Senior Member • Posts: 1,460
Re: EOS UTILITY PROBLEM RE: 'PHOTOS' on a 400D

abrogard1 wrote:

It has found 742 on the card is what I'd think. Not 742 new. Now that's bad programming right there.

No, it's not. If this is the first time Photos has imported pictures, it doesn't know which ones you imported with another program already.

That's also not good, is it? Looks to me like an incomplete piece of software being beta tested on the unsuspecting public.

Photos is not new, it's been around since the beginning of Win10 and is not "beta".

So I've tried to uninstall it with the command I found on the web. It completed without any messages so I don't know as yet if it's been successful.

Get-AppxPackage *photo* | Remove-AppxPackage

Removing it is fine, but all you really needed to do is disable it from "importing" photos. Can't remember the exact location in the Windows settings, but I believe it's where yo specify what program runs when you insert removable media.

There's nothing really wrong with Photos, granted I'd never use it, but I supposed it would be fine for some. What likely happened is an update was installed and it changed the default setting to allow Photos to import - now THAT's something to complain about!

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