Chris, In fact I did recently install dropbox, so that explains it. I tried dowloading the disk image from your help page but it didn't help, so I restarted my computer and did the manual search you suggested. Maybe now I can start over! Thanks for your help.
On Aug 6, 12:22 pm, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > You were likely a victim of what is described here: > > http://growl.info/thirdpartyinstallations.php > > <http://growl.info/thirdpartyinstallations.php>Not much we can do about it > but help you from here. > > Open Activity Monitor, and search for Growl . See if you can find anything > like GrowlTunes or GrowlHelperApp running. If so, you can kill them manually > if you would like. > > It sounds like the prefpane is corrupted for some reason. I'm not sure why > you can't run the uninstaller, but you can go into the following to remove > Growl manually: > > Your Home Directory > Library > > PreferencePanes > > You should see a Growl.prefpane from there. Move that to the trash. > > Chris > > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Deborah <[email protected]> wrote: > > First I tried to open Growl to change the preferences, but when I > > clicked on the icon my only option was to install again, which I > > obviously didn't want to do. So I searched my mac and couldn't figure > > out how to launch the app to change preferences. The notifications > > lasted half a second and they aren't helpful that way. I tried to > > eject the disk and it said I had to close applications to eject. So I > > closed all the open applications and I still couldn't eject the disk. > > Then I decided to uninstall and I opened that and got a message saying > > uninstall successful. But the disk image was still there as were the > > files. So I tried to follow the manual uninstall procedures but there > > is no growl in my system preferences and so of course I can't go into > > growl's preferences (which is what started this circle in the > > beginning). > > So I just want this off of my mac. > > The only reason I installed it anyway is cause I started to get > > messages telling me there was a new version of growl available. I > > never installed it to begin with so I don't understand why I was > > getting ghostly messages to upgrade... > > > -- > > 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]<growldiscuss%2bunsubscr...@google > > groups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. -- 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.
