sound issue resolved, as suggested not related to growlMail: this is
off topic but...
Mail 3.x seems to mistakenly redefine mail alerts. the new mail app
has redefined its mail alerts as a user interface sound instead of
just a normal alert or sound effects. this is annoying because now one
has all these other beeps and whistles just to hear new mail arrivals.
the odd thing about it, and why i call it a mistake, is that at the
same time, the effect sound itself is no longer filtered through the
sound effect channel but has instead been moved to the normal computer
output channel which by definition makes it not in the category of a
user interface sound. the consequence of this, for instance, is that
people with hearing disabilities or others who get there emails as
screen flashes, as configured in universal access, can no longer do
so. none of this makes sense together. the universal access issue
might be the only hope that apple will be guilted or motivated to fix
this quickly.
thanks for the other stuff.
On Mar 26, 2009, at Mar 26 12:43 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:
On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:35:07, bob sherman wrote:
> i can not get mail to notify me with a sound, which is a big problem
> when im deep in a WOW dungeon :D.
That's nothing to do with GrowlMail. Check your sound settings;
perhaps you (accidentally) or some application changed your alert
device or alert volume.
> i manually uninstalled growlMail, this is what i did. am i missing
> something?
> -i have deleted the mail bundle
> -set defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles -bool yes to "no" and
> then again to "yes"
This preference isn't set by default. To restore the default, type this:
defaults delete com.apple.mail EnableBundles
> -i have erased the mailScript and growlMail from growl preferences
What do you mean by that?
> i have also turned growl off completely.
Growl is a separate process; it doesn't affect Mail at all. That's
different from GrowlMail; as a Mail bundle, it runs inside Mail, so it
can affect Mail. (But it doesn't hook into anything that would break
sounds.)
> you had me enter the terminal line :
> defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion -int 3
> did that change something?
It should have.
> if so, what do i type to change it back to what it was?
Same technique as above:
defaults delete com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion
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