Can Growl or cocoa/forge BARK at me?

dawghausfrau · Post by **dawghausfrau** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:00 am

Ok, this has got to be the strangest problem ever. I do not think I've posted about it before. On three separate occasions my computer suddenly emitted barks, like a dog. Three in a row. I don't know where they come from. It happened just now at 9:17 pm EST.

I was running Word, Terminal, Mail (I get my mail manually so there is no alert sign there), Firefox, Finder, Dashboard. Growl is always running, starts on log in. I was on this forum page among others in Firefox. One other time it happened I was also in these forums. Is there some barking sound that it emits occassionally? Or that Growl itself emits?

There was no new private message for me here and no new post for me to read. I have no idea what it could be and the people at Apple Care are completely stumped. All my permissions are in order, etc. I have not yet downloaded the new version of Growl, just in case you are wondering. I'm on 7.4.

I'd love to know what the heck this is. It's driving me nuts. And I have my universal system preferences set to give me a visual alert along with an audio one and the screen did not flash so I think that rules out a system alert.

Please help. I am afraid of dawgs!

Post by **bgannin** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:36 am

Growl doesn't bark or otherwise make noise unless it's configured to do so, and it only speaks at that [not sound effects.] I'd look to the Dashboard or at your hardware (as there have been audio anomalies with recent hardware.)

dawghausfrau · Post by **dawghausfrau** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:21 am

I trashed a widget on the Dashboard that I put on myself. It was for my ftp program, Fetch, the only other dog-related thing I could think of. But in all these instances Fetch wasn't even running.

What audio anomalies do you speak of and where would I begin to check in terms of hardware? I think Apple had me run a hardware diagnostic or wanted me to. I really cannot remember at this point.

dawghausfrau · Post by **dawghausfrau** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:25 am

I'm on a Mac G5 tower if that helps with the hardware issue.

Post by **bgannin** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:27 am

dawghausfrau wrote:I'm on a Mac G5 tower if that helps with the hardware issue.

I was more referring to the moo/chirp sounds found on Intel hardware for the past year.

dawghausfrau · Post by **dawghausfrau** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:29 am

Ah. Well, no, this is not a barnyard animal sound issue. This is a domestic pet sound issue.

jwiede · Post by **jwiede** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:52 pm

Hehe, I spent a few hours searching for why my Mac emitted single barks every now and then the other night.

It's Bookdog's background bookmark watcher Bookwatchdog that's barking.

Check the Bookdog preferences, you can disable the bark in there.

-JFW