how do i get rid of 0.7.6?

danreines · Post by **danreines** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:02 pm

I'm on a MacBook Pro running 10.4.10.

I have had 0.7.6 for a couple years. Today, it hung when I rolled my curser over the notification - I couldn't get rid of the notification without rebooting.

So I downloaded 1.1.2 and installed. but 0.7.6 is still there -- i get double notifications. and I can't turn 0.7.6 off, nor can I uninstall it -- it keeps asking me to find growlhelper.app for it, but growlhelper.app doesn't appear to exist on my computer.

I've uninstalled 1.1.2, and I'm still getting notifications from 0.7.6 (thankfully they no longer seem to be hanging). But growl doesn't appear in my system preferences pane anymore, so i can't make any changes or adjustments to 0.7.6.

how do i uninstall 0.7.6 and start over with 1.1.2?

danreines · Post by **danreines** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:05 pm

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richlin71 · Post by **richlin71** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:02 pm

I'm having the same exact problem. Any help appreciated!

Post by **The_Tick** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:35 pm

Look in ~/Library/PreferencePanes and see if Growl is in there. Let me know if it is.

danreines · Post by **danreines** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:28 pm

now what?

Post by **The_Tick** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:26 pm

Is there one in it?

danreines · Post by **danreines** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:30 pm

Sorry -- your answer was in the subject line, but the subject line is hard to read. No -- there wasn't one there.

Post by **The_Tick** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:37 pm

Is Growl.prefpane in /Library/PreferencePanes?

And ya, I totally missed the subject, thanks for clarifying.

danreines · Post by **danreines** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:42 pm

Nope -- nothing growl related is in there.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:04 am

Is GrowlHelperApp running?

danreines · Post by **danreines** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:13 am

I don't have GrowlHelperApp. Or if I do have it, I can't find it anywhere. Spotlight finds only one thing with that name: com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp.plist. That's all I have.

Post by **bgannin** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:27 am

I believe Tick was referring to GrowlHelperApp running (not the application itself, which is actually in Growl.prefPane) which can be verified using Activity Monitor (in /Applications/Utilities/)

danreines · Post by **danreines** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:36 am

Oh right -- in that case, no, it's not running.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:42 am

Then Growl is not on your system. Brian was correct about where I was going with this.

danreines · Post by **danreines** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:48 am

But how is it working?

Every time you post to this forum, I get an email, and the way I know about the email is that there's a growl notification -- smoke, to be exact.

how is that not on my system? i'm really confused.

Post by **bgannin** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:10 am

If GrowlHelperApp is not present in Activity Monitor then Growl is not displaying a notification. No way around that.

danreines · Post by **danreines** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:18 am

No disrespect intended, but that's exactly what's happening.

GrowlHelperApp does not appear in Activity Monitor.

Growl displays a notification whenever I get an email.

Is there another name under which GrowlHelperApp might operate? An old name or something?

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:39 pm

Nope, it's always used the same name.

Show us a screenshot of what you are seeing. You'll need to upload it somewhere else.

Post by **bgannin** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:55 pm

What are you using for a mail client? How is it configured to post Growl notifications?

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how do i get rid of 0.7.6?

how do i get rid of 0.7.6?

oh, and thanks in advance for any help.

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