Brian, I never saw an email from Peter after 9:28PM yesterday. I got one from Chris, to which I responded. Now, I've gotten a flood of emails from Evan and Peter, and this most recent one from you. Apparently Evan and Peter are discussing some of the issues I raised. Briefly, here's the back story. I installed Adium so I could use Stanford's IM system. Part of that install asked me to install Growl, supposedly because Adium uses it to notify users of Instant Messages from other users. OK, I did that. Next thing I know, strange files are showing up in my Trash. Every start or restart of my computer leaves Recovered Files in the Trash. Where were they coming from, I asked myself. The only clue was the file names ended in "growlRegDict", so I assumed that came from Growl. I looked at my System Preferences -> Accounts and there were no Login Items dealing with Growl. I looked a Growl itself, and I did NOT have "Start Growl at login" checked, and did NOT have "Show Growl icon on menu bar" checked. I checked that one, and the Growl icon appeared on my menu bar. There was no "GrowlMenu" application or control panel, so when Peter started talking about that, I had no idea what he was talking about. Over the next few days I used Adium a few times, but continued to see Recovered Files in my Trash day-after-day, which I deleted by Empty Trash. But they came back every day, with different date-time stamps. So I posted my FIRST post to the Growl Discussion Group. I still don't see GrowlMenu, unless that means the Growl icon on the menu bar, which only appears if I open System Preferences -> Growl. Until I open Growl, there is NO icon on the menu bar. There are NO Login Items under Accounts having to do with Growl. Yet I keep being told there should be such items. What would have installed them? And why weren't they installed when I said "YES" to Adium's request to add Growl? That's the basis of my assertion that Growl wasn't properly installed. These are some of the things I don't understand. I hope this explanation help YOU.
Dickster On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Bryan Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't believe anyone is criticizing you. If the misunderstanding is on > your end, though, you shouldn't expect a magical "oops, our fault" answer to > appear. Read though Peter's email again (the one around 1:17am) and you > should get the answers you asked for. If you don't understand them, explain > what you don't understand and we can help you with that. > > You conclusion that Growl wasn't installed properly seems to be wrong or at > very best unfounded from the information you've provided so far. > > - Bryan > > On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Dick Guertin wrote: > > Technically, YES, but apparently Growl wasn't installed "properly", > otherwise I wouldn't have all these problems and inconsistencies. It seems > like you folks are more interested in criticizing clients than in solving > problems. If that's the case, then I'll "Uninstall" Growl and be done with > it. Otherwise, I'd appreciate attention directed at solving problems. I > thought that was the purpose of the Growl Discussion Group. Was I wrong? > > Dickster > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Chris Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Aug 28, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Dickster wrote: >> >> > >> > See below... >> > >> > On Aug 28, 1:31 pm, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Aug 28, 2009, at 08:50:15, Dickster wrote: >> >>> 2. In the System Preferences, I have the box checked that says to >> >>> "Show Growl icon in menu bar", but it doesn't show up until I click >> >>> on "Grown" in the System Preferences window. When I do, I'm told >> >>> "Growl is running", and the icon appears. >> >> >> >> Sounds like GrowlMenu is missing from your Login Items. Try >> >> unchecking >> >> the box and re-checking it. >> > >> > I don't have any Login Startup Items about Growl or GrowlMenu. Why >> > should I? I didn't install Growl... it was installed as a side-effect >> > of installing Adium. >> >> >> Actually you did. Adium asked if you wanted Growl installed. You chose >> yes. :) >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
