Image Capture

You can change whether iPhoto gets to import from a camera in the app "Image Capture", located in your applications folder. Select preferences from the app menu to change settings.

application in the preferences for the Image Capture app. You can change to any app to open when you attach a digital camera, or plugging in a camera card into a reader will often trigger that same app. ...

The scanner shipped with software from Canon, including a TWAIN driver. The TWAIN driver works. However, the scanner works best with the MacOS X utility Image Capture. Photoshop Elements 4.0, GraphicConverter, and Canvas X using TWAIN work OK, but not nearly as well as Image Capture. ...

Image Capture is not affected. ...

standard Image Capture? ...

I believe you should have a Nikon Twain plug-in in your_username/Library/Image Capture/TWAIN Data Sources/ Is it there?

Try using Image Capture with the scanner on and plugged in to the computer, see if that detects and scans. If that doesn't work I have had good luck with VueScan look for it on Google. ...

but when I launched Image Capture, it just showed me "waiting for device", and stayed that way for a while, until I cancelled the Mass storage service. ...

How_RUDE!

Image Capture, being an Apple app, is creating the preview and icon views on the fly as it saves them. You can be sure the camera is not creating them. Why those images don't have the icon views I can't guess. If you experiment you'll probably figure it out. I don't care about resource forks and often strip them because I mostly want images for web use or email. I use...