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February 20, 2023
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How to stop Lightroom from automatically opening import window whenever I connect an external HDD

  • February 20, 2023
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If Lightroom Classic is open when I connect an external HDD, it automatically opens the import window. How do I stop this behavior? The only solution I could find is to uncheck "show import dialog when a memory card is detected" in the preferences menu, but that's compeltely unhelpful since that was already unchecked.

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Community Expert
February 21, 2023

You have to configure the Autoplay settings in Windows.

Please see here. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-configure-autoplay-windows-10

 

My System: Intel i7-8700K - 64GB RAM - NVidia Geforce RTX 3060 - Windows 11 Pro 25H2 -- LR-Classic 15 - Photoshop 27 - Nik Collection 9 - PureRAW 6 - Topaz Photo AI
Per Berntsen
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Community Expert
February 21, 2023

Go to Windows AutoPlay settings, and set them up like below.

Does that fix the issue?