Image import dialog box InDesign CS4

The Image import dialog box has no "turn off" box to select after I turned it on to place a page in a PDF document. I am in Indesign CS4. How do I turn off this feature. It is showing the window now every time I import an image.
Please help.

There should be a tick box called Show Import Options
File>Place and you should see it.

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When I click the plus sign on the folders panel, it takes me to the create folder dialog where I can browse to the location of the new folder.
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Anyway, is there any functionality in LR that should import images when a new folder is created? I think this happens when I don't have a folder selected...not sure.. away from LR at the moment.
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>"Anyway, is there any functionality in LR that should import images when a new folder is created? I think this happens when I don't have a folder selected...not sure.. away from LR at the moment. "
I can't duplicate this. Whether I have highlighted an existing LR folder or not, clicking the "+" brings up the create folder dialog, I browse to a location and create a subfolder. That folder then becomes a LR folder. If I do have a current LR folder highlighted, the process (or just right clicking on the folder name and choose "Create Folder") brings up the create folder dialog with the current LR folder as the parent. I can create a new folder and it will become a LR subfolder of the highlighted one.
>"As an aside, I wish you could click the + on the folders panel and LR would create a subfolder at the selected location with the name ready to edit, rather than going to a new dialog and having to browse to the location."
Actually, the new dialog that opens for me (as described above) places me in the selected folder - all I do is click the create folder button in that window and a new subfolder is made. I think the reason LR won't just create a new subfolder without going to a new dialog is that the folders panel lists the "LR folders" which are a parallel universe to the "real folders" on your drive. Perhaps the LR engineers thought that by providing you with the browser/creator dialog, they were giving you more control. Who knows.
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Lee Jay wrote:
clvrmnky wrote:
turnkey26 wrote:
Then Adobe added this 'feature' to LR 3 because it did not happen in LR 2. There must be a way to turn this off because it is simply not needed. There is a check mark to indicate what photo is selected for importing. The thumbnail should not turn darker or lighter.
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