Well, it didn't exactly "work". Although I had started Growl, and checked BOTH "Show Growl icon in menu bar" AND "Start Growl at login", and I had BOTH of the growl-related apps in my Accounts -> Login Items (see attached pictures), when I restarted, the Growl icon appeared, but when I tried "Clear Cache" in Firefox, which creates a Growl message, there was no message. I looked at the pull-down menu under the Growl icon (menu bar), and Growl was STOPPED. I didn't stop it. Furthermore, I thought GrowlHelperApp was supposed to start it since I had "Start Growl at login" checked. I started Growl from the menu bar icon, and Restarted my computer. Recovered files again... But at least this time the Growl pull-down menu says Growl is running. I'm now wondering what will happen on a cold start.
BTW, I had to remove GrowlMenu from my Login Items, then moved GrowlMenu to the Applications folder, and then re-add it to my Login Items. There was no way I was going to leaving it permanently on my Desktop. Dickster On Aug 30, 8:59 am, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 30, 2009, at 08:38:40, Dickster wrote: > > > Peter, I'm replying to you about your response to me which states > > "5. who doesn't even want to use Growl". I DO want to use Growl, > > which is why I've spend so much time trying to debug it. > > Ah, OK. > > > I was trying to determine why "Show Grolw icon in menu bar" wasn't > > showing it from the very start of my computer session. If you read > > my original posting, you can see where I was experimenting with > > "Show Growl icon ...". Turning Growl OFF led to the Recovered files > > problem, so I had to continue in that mode to try and debug that > > problem. > > OK. Now you've succeeded, so you can turn Growl back on. :-) > > Then we're back to your original problem of the Growl menu-bar item > not entering the Login Items list. This is the first we've heard of > any such problem, and it does not happen for me. > > To fix it, we need either a complete description of the nature of the > bug (not just symptoms but a description of where and how the code > goes wrong), or steps to reproduce that work for us. > > It's possible that this is a bug in Tiger itself, fixed in Leopard. If > that's the case, there's probably nothing we can do about it and it's > certainly not worth our time to work around a problem that's already > been fixed in shipping Mac OS X for two years. > > Much easier on all involved, I think, would be for you to simply add > GrowlMenu to the Login Items directly. Here's how you do that: > > 1. Find the Growl prefpane. Spotlight is the easiest way to do this. > 2. Once you're looking at it in Finder, right-click on it and choose > Show Package Contents. > 3. Open Contents, then Resources. Among the items there is > GrowlMenu.app. > 4. Open System Preferences and open the Accounts pane. > 5. Drag GrowlMenu into the Login Items list. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
