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If I download a picture from the internet and then open it on my desktop it automatically gets loaded to the Photos app. I have already turned things off in the preferences general pane. I do not have pictures going to the cloud automatically. I cannot find any other way to prevent this from happening.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.15
How are you opening the downloaded photo?
You may check the Info for a downloaded photo, if the "Open with" is set to "Photos".
After you change it to Preview or some other app, click "Change All" as well.
Leonie, by messing around I found the beginning of the path you describe; i.e., "open with Preview app". That works. I don't see the option in your graphic that say "use to open all documents". I notice that it also says preview app is the default. I looked at preview preferences but did not see a way to make it a default. Can you get me thorough that next step. I have been having go to "open with" each time. Thanks
Don't you see a "Change All" button in the Info for a selected photo?
If the button "Change All" is dimmed, click once on the blue arrows behind "Preview".
Thank you. I did not know that I had to go to the pictures info to get a pane that allowed for a change to all. Prior to this I was just going to "open with" and choosing preview from the options without ever going to the pictures info. This is such a hit or miss business.
Pictures automatically going into Photos on MacBook Pro retina OS Catalina
