Adrian Mustapha
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I have a problem if I click on a jpg image - even though windows photo viewer is set to the default program type then Lightroom is starting up. Then I have to waste time closing it down. Is this a Lightroom issue?
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I have looked in windows default program file types and jpg is definetly set to windows photo viewer so why does lightroom sometimes open jpgs when i just click on them??
I am using Windows 7 ultimate and defualt program type for jpg is set to windows photo viewer.It's simply common sense that it can't be a Lightroom issue. If Lightroom is not running, and it suddenly starts up when you click on a jpeg photo, then something else must have called Lightroom. Lightroom can't do anything if it is not running. That something else is the operating system. You are using MacOS, so you probably know how it works on a Mac. You select the jpeg, choose 'Get Info' from the Finder, and in the dialog that comes up you see which default application is called when you double click on a jpeg. Same thing (but different way of setting this up) in Windows.
If the Windows Default for this filetype is Photo Viewer, then the image would have opened in Photo Viewer and the OP would not be posing the question. This has nothing to do with LR. As I understand it, LR is not running when the OP clicks on the JPEG file. LR opens when a removable device containing image files is connected. The filetypes associated with LR are catalog files (*.lrcat) and a few other filetypes whose extension begins with "*.lrxxxxx".But the op says Photo Viewer is set as the default