On Oct 2, 2010, at 00:20:05, Kristen wrote: > … to be asked to actually INSTALL growl just so I can UNINSTALL it raises > many red flags.
What page do we have that asks you to install it? The “third party installations” page told you to download the disk image because it contains the uninstaller. You do not need to use the same disk image to install Growl. Hopefully, the revised instructions that link to a separate uninstaller archive will avert this confusion in the future. > Yes, if I had not deleted the program (and yes, I understand now that > deleting and uninstalling are different things) … The main difference is that it is possible for a process to continue running after the file it was launched from is deleted, so if MacKeeper only deletes the Growl prefpane and its contents, and doesn't kill the Growl background process, and you don't shut down or restart before the time of the next update check, the background process will still perform the update check even though Growl is now missing from the system. That's my best guess as to how that happened for you (since you don't use Dropbox). The solution is to stop Growl, then delete it. That's what our uninstaller does. (Killing Growl from the Activity Monitor, before or after, would also work. As long as Growl is both not running and not present in either of the PreferencePanes folders, it is not installed.) > … I would have been able to follow your uninstall instructions… I've simplified those instructions to remove the video, leaving only the uninstaller-based procedure. Running the Growl Uninstaller *will* stop Growl and delete the Growl program (the prefpane and everything inside it). I also added a section to the page about third-party uninstallers, warning against using them. -- 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.
