How Do You Turn Off Update To Version 6 Reminder

[mhardisty (Michael Hardisty)]

I’m using Version 5 of Nik Efex and have no intention of updating to Version 6. How do I turn off that annoying pop-up reminding me that there is a new version available

[mikerofoto]

in nik 6 you have this option. not sure is nik5 is like all previous version without this option. there’s some discussion regarding this issue, just do a search.

[mhardisty (Michael Hardisty)]

Thank you for your reply. I’ve had a look but can’t find a solution yet. I’ll keep searching

[stuck (Canon, PL5, GTX 1050ti, Win 10)]

See these two topics:

Does Anyone Know How to Stop The Annoying Update Prompts from NIK collection?

You can try the following: Open the FIle “NikCollection.cfg” in an Editor: On PC: C:/ProgramData/DxO/Nik Collection/NikCollection.cfg On Mac: /Library/Preferences/DxO/Nik Collection/NikCollection.cfg Change the value under “iSEnabled” in the group “Checkforupdate” from: key name=“IsEnabled” type=“bool” value=“1”/ to: key name=“IsEnabled” type=“bool” value=“0”/ In the End it should look loke this: </group> <group name=“Checkforupdate”> <key name=“IsEnabled” type=“bool” value=“0"/> …

Disable update screen at startup?

This was happening to me also and it finally became so aggravating that I hunted down a solution. Here’s what I’ve done to fix it on a Mac. You will need to have root privileges to do this. I did this in Terminal from the command-line as well, I’m not sure if you can edit system Library files from Finder with root privileges. I located the DxO configuration file in the /Library/Preferences/DxO/Nik Collection directory - it’s called NikCollection.cfg. Full pathname /Library/Preferences/DxO/Nik …