Have done all this & have done all that.  Evetually it all changes back and promps LR.

I'm not going to spend any more time with this issue.

As I mentioned before, I do not have autoplay disabled.

When I made the initially suggested registry change and also removed the permissions from ShowPicturesOnArrival in the EventHandlersDefaultSection it prevented any program, including LR, from setting itself as the default handler for pictures, so I always get the explorer popup letting me choose which program I want to use. I just need to remember to change that entry back when/if Adobe fixes the problem.

I always download directly from the CF card, though, not by attaching the camera.

Man this is a really annoying bug. September tomorrow and still no fix from Adobe.

Anyway, I just wanted to add that the registry permissions fix written about in this thread works for me on Windows 7 RC (64 bit).

By the way, I'm in no way affiliated with "Geoff the Kiwi", who given his input into this thread should perhaps change his screen name to "Geoff the Adobe Apologist". It would be nice if someone actually from Adobe put an appearance in to reassure upset users that they are working on this, and advise when we can expect a fix.

Yes, on further investigation I was dissapointed to find that the registry edit did not fix the problem.

At first I though it was probably some problem between LR and Windows 7 RC, but then reading this I see others running Vista have the same issue. Seems to be specific to 64 bit versions though. I did send a bug report, and I hope Adobe come up with a fix soon. It's a hell of a lot more annoying than it sounds. It's amazing how many things you plug into your computer have images on them.This morning I opened a Windows Home Server backup, and of course as soon as my machine mounted the backup image, LR popped up and wanted to download several thousand photos. I'm going to see if I still have a copy of LR 2.3 and see if that solves it.

I generally love Adobe software (with the exception of the endlessly problematic Acrobat), but needless to say I've been a bit down on Adobe lately. After recently installing CS3 on Win 7 I lost my internet connection. I eventually discovered that CS3 installs the Apple Bonjour service (I know other Apple stuff does too, but I avoid Apple software on the PC for this very reason), and Bonjour was resetting the default gateway to 0.0.0.0! I killed that service quick smart.

I had the problem on both 32bit vista and 64bit win7, RC and RTM. Changing the registry fixed the issue for me on both. I made the change several weeks ago and have use LR 2.4 many times since then and the fix is still working.

I expect the problem is more widespread than some suspect, since if you always use LR to import pictures you'd not notice the issue.

Geoff, if you think very few are having problems with this, please look at the number of people that have looked at this thread. It is over 7000 now! I have never seen a thread here with this number of hits.

This issue has also been a topic of discussion in more than one thread at

DPReview and I'm sure other forums as well.

Regards,

Jim

http://jmlphotography.smugmug.com/

Exactly.  On the DPReview thread that I referred to I pointed out the Adobe

recommendation to go back to LR 2.3 and I'm sure many did exactly that,

without ever contacting Adobe or discussing it again.

Regards,

Jim

http://jmlphotography.smugmug.com/

Ok, so this problem affects Win Vista and 7, both 23 and 64 bit, and there's no sure work around other than reverting to LR version 2.3

What I'd like to know is, is anybody running Lightroom 2.4 on these operating systems without this problem?

I'd be willing to bet this does not occur on the 23 bit version

I just let this happen.  Ignoring this issue.  I tried the fixes and workarounds.  Started again.  I actually run both 2.0 and 2.4.  How about that.  Why?  Because of some crappola issue with Sigma RAW that has never been corrected.

Just been putting up with this silliness for months (since upgrading to 2.4 back in June) and then checked again today to see if there was any new solution. I followed jmlphotography's steps posted on 8/16 and they worked like a charm for me. No more LR2 popping up whenever a flash drive is inserted or a camera attached. I can CHOOSE to run LR2 import, but when it's no longer starting up all the time when I don't want it. Thanks.

After posting a previous comment, I've discovered that I have this problem exactly.  And after reading many volumes of comments, it appears Photoshop LR 2.4 is not fixed, nor is there a fix.  I feel ripped-off.  Not only have Adobe failed to "make good" on a a fix.  They have failed to offer us something better as a free replacement.  I think this is totally unacceptable.  I've bought many Adobe products over the years, but this one has spoiled it. http://web-max.info

The fix is Lr 2.5/2.6.

Others have already replied to your comment.  Yes, it is fixed and working FINE.  My only complaint now is that Adobe removed the option to compress or not to compress DNG when importing files to LR.  I am a firm believer in "not compressing".  Regardless what some people say, you do lose information in compressing.  Granted, it might not be that noticeable; but, I don't want anything lost and Adobe should leave that decision to the user.  (They are like Microsoft now -- deciding what the user should have.)

Lossless - Don't believe it.  The articles I have read state otherwise.  Although, they state it is negligible and you may not notice it.  I am of the "old school" and do not like to compress, especially on important jobs.  I am not concerned about space; just have to use more DVD's when archiving.

Yes, using the convertor method is less convenient.