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I've noticed just today that Growl is behaving a little differently. I'm getting iTunes notfications, even though I've got GrowlTunes turned off. And a homemade mail-notification script, which has worked fine up until today, has gone AWOL, even though it's turned on.

I don't think there have been any changes in my setup since the last time things were working as expected. I did upgrade to 10.4.11 when that came out a few days ago, although Growl continued to operated normally after that. This change seems to have happened spontaneously overnight.

There are any number of applications that can notify based on iTunes notifications. Quicksilver for instance can do this.

You're going to have to provide a lot more info about the mail script for us to troubleshoot this.

OK, well, I do have Quicksilver, but I haven't done anything to make it issue Growl notifications in response to iTunes, and it hasn't been through an update in a couple weeks and "monitor recent tracks" is turned off.

My mail script is here:
http://8stars.org/misc/mailgrowler.applescript

Another change that I just noticed is that the per-app custom style for my NetNewsWire notifications (nano) have been reset to my default (smoke) style.

It seems as if Growl has changed some settings internally, without exposing those changes through the UI--all the preferences look the way I want them to, the notifications just don't reflect them. I can't think of any changes to my setup that would account for this.

adamrice wrote:OK, well, I do have Quicksilver, but I haven't done anything to make it issue Growl notifications in response to iTunes, and it hasn't been through an update in a couple weeks and "monitor recent tracks" is turned off.

Disable every application in the applications tab then, then enable them one at a time. Process of elimination time.

Some other minor annoyances started accumulating on my system (screensaver refused to kick in, that sort of thing), so I rebooted. That apparently fixed it. Curiously, the problems I reported first materialized right after my *last* reboot. Go figure.

That's weird. Let us know if it happens again, try what I suggested (the process of elimination) and see what happens and let us know.

As it turns out, this problem never really went away. My growl notifications wound up being disabled except for those triggered by the script I mentioned earlier. Very strange. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Growl. No effect.

Not long after this, I started having another problem: my keyboard and mouse would go dead (even the caps-lock light wouldn't go on). Since the computer would otherwise carry on (audio and video would play, chat messages roll in, etc), the problem seemed related to my USB bus.

That put me on the trail of the Logitech Control Center software for my mouse (MX Revolution), which was recently updated for Leopard (to a chorus of complaints). I'm on Tiger still, but updated anyhow.

I removed the LCC software, and Growl seems to be back to normal.