I installed Growl and GrowlMail about 18 months ago. After I had used it for a couple of months without difficulty, Growl received an update. Immediately afterward, I was unable to create or edit rules in Apple Mail. When I opened the rules and attempted to create or edit one, the activity window would show that the program was writing changes to disk for all of my mail accounts. Then Mail would hang and the Force Quit application would report that Mail was not responding. I had to force a quit for the program and then open it anew.
I was able to access other preferences in Mail. Only the rules did not work. After trying every fix I could locate or try myself, I uninstalled Growl and GrowlMail. This did not fix the problem. Then I deleted my e-mail accounts and recreated them. This allowed me to regain the ability to create and edit rules. A month later, I installed Growl and GrowlMail again, after another update, I believe. This again broke my ability to create or edit rules with the same symptoms. The Mail activity window reported that the program endlessly was writing changes to disk. After searching again around the Internet, I could not find a way to fix the problem. I again uninstalled Growl and GrowlMail and then deleted my mail accounts and readded them. This did not fix the problem this time, though, and I really regretted trusting Growl by installing it a second time in the hopes that the update had fixed the problem. Ever since then, I have been unable to create or edit rules and it is extremely annoying. I have cleared out e-mails from my in-box and sent folders, performed resets of Mail, and rebuilt the mailboxes. I am at a loss for what is causing this problem. There is no question that Growl and/or GrowlMail caused it. I really wish that Growl would post a fix for this. I appreciated the convenience of the Growl notification windows for a few months, but now the very mention of Growl elicits a feeling of great irritation for me. I am aware of the issues surrounding Growl and Dropbox and Adobe CS5. However, my system does not appear to have Growl installed at all anymore. Yet, the damage from its presence remains. I would be grateful to know whether other users have experienced this problem and, if so, how they have resolved it. I am using a MacBook Pro 17" 2.16 GHz with 2 GB of RAM and running System 10.6.6. Thanks. -- 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.
