There is an applescript rules api which I believe will do what you want. Here is the documentation:
http://growl.info/documentation/applescript-rules On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:49 PM, David Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for your post. I checked and both systems had pending updates. I > completed all pending updates and was still getting the hourly notification > from both. I tried turning off the "automatically check for updates" but > was still receiving the notifications. So I'm not too sure what else could > be triggering it. It would be nice if you could selectively toggle off or > block certain notifications, like this one. My Prowl notification goes off > twice an hour because of this however the goal was to tell me if other more > important volumes became unmounted but anything useful just gets buried in > these useless notifications. > > On Sunday, 3 July 2016 18:44:41 UTC-4, rlhamil wrote: >> >> That sounds kind of like Mac App Store checking for updates - it does >> that, in OS versions where the Recovery partition exists (and probably >> where the Mac App Store also handles OS X updates). I think I've seen >> Parallels do that too, when starting a VM. If you have Parallels set up to >> run Windows from the Boot Camp partition, it will also unmount that before >> starting the VM, and remount it in a different way while the VM is running, >> and reverse that when the VM is shut down. And Chrome (and probably >> others) that check for updates themselves will download and mount a .dmg >> file containing the updates, and unmount it and clean up when they're done. >> >> All these mounts and unmounts were happening already - HardwareGrowler is >> just letting you know they're happening. >> >> All I have found about Mac App Store update check frequency suggests that >> the default is once every seven days, and past Lion, no longer has an >> obvious preference to set it. >> >> http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/02/23/change-how-often-mac-checks-software-updates/ >> >> provides some more detail; but it shows the granularity in whole days, >> not something shorter. So it does seem strange to me why it should be >> checking hourly. Could that be a retry interval if it fails? That is, >> have you tried running the App Store app on them by hand to see what >> happens, and attempt to install any pending updates? >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 1:32 PM, David Cox <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> After installing HardwareGrowler I get hourly notifications from both of >>> my machines stating that Recovery HD has been mounted and then immediately >>> unmounted. >>> >>> V2.1.3 Growl >>> V2.2 HardwareGrowler >>> OSX 10.11.4 for both machines >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Growl Discuss" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Chris Forsythe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
