Hello, Lynn Ah. Definitely glad you found a destructive way of getting rid of it. :). I should do the same, honestly, because it's not like I use it. It's just disabled and taking up space, however little it might be.
Glad you found your own way. And it doesn't really matter how you do it. Hopefully, a program doesn't require it to be installed in the future and wants you to do it all over again. Hopefully you get a choice. Regards, Nic On Oct 7, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Lynn Schneider wrote: > > Hi Nick. I am happy to say that I did get rid of Growl by doing a > combination of the instructions on the Growl web site in combination > with bruit force search and destroy of every single file with Growl in > the title. It is interesting to me that, as I researched the answer > to my problem with Growl, a lot of people said the same thing you did, > that it was easier to just turn it off than to uninstall it. One of > my character flaws, however, is my chronic stubbornness. I'm not > content leaving well enough alone. I have a brand new computer, and > if there is something on there that I don't like, I want it gone, not > just forgotten. Thankfully, I did find the solution to my problem. I > had to go into my library folder under my name and delete all > references to Growl. I was like a maniac on a mission (LOL). I went > through every folder and subfolder and wacked off every file that > referenced Growl, and as far as I can see, it is gone for good. > > On Oct Î6, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> A good idea is simply to turn your Growl off in System preferences. >> I'm not kidding you. Every time I used Skype, or Adium even if I >> turned Growl notifications off, it kept saying "Adium/Skype has new >> dialog", and it annoyed the heck out of me. So yes, you're safe to >> turn it off. The notifications in Adium still work, speaking events >> and all. >> >> Regards, >> Nic >> On Oct 6, 2009, at 3:28 AM, Lynn Schneider wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi everyone. I am a very recent switcher who has tried to install >>> and >>> use Adium. Upon starting up Adium for the first time, it wanted me >>> to >>> install something called Growl. I was not sure if this was >>> absolutely >>> necessary to use Adium, but I said yes. Since then, things look >>> different on my system. I did some research on Growl, but I still >>> don't understand what it does. I'd really like to get it off my >>> system, so I did the uninstall procedures suggested by the >>> developers, >>> but when I go into system preferences, I still see a Growl button. >>> All of this is reminding me of the reason I stopped using Windows. >>> Now, also, when I click on my Mac HD, I see all my apps listed there >>> instead of just in my apps folder like it was before. I uninstalled >>> Adium to see if that would help, but things are still not like they >>> were. Why is that Growl button still in my system preferences even >>> though I uninstalled the program? I didn't think Mac had a >>> registry, >>> so where is this stupid thing hiding? Thanks in advance for any >>> assistance. >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" 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/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
