On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 30, 2010, at 02:03:23, Cale McNulty wrote: >> After weeks of seeing the growl notification pop up and promptly ignoring >> it, I finally googled it to see what it was and how I could get rid of it. >> I was choked that something I most certainly did not install was on my >> system and, far worse, bugging me to do stuff. >> >> Then I came to Growl's "click here if you get annoying messages and don't >> know why" page. I can't say how impressed I am with your candor. I googled >> thinking I had mal- or adware, and found out it was software from a company >> whose actions I actually respect. >> >> I think I'll keep it. > > Thank you for your kind words. > > Note that you'll want to uninstall the old version as well as install the new > version. Otherwise, you'll continue to get update notifications as long as > the old version is the one that's running. (It's possible to have both > because Dropbox installs Growl in your Library whereas our installer installs > it in the all-users Library.) > > We'd previously decided that the installer should leave the per-user Growl > alone for our own testing purposes (some of us run a development Growl in the > Home Library but may need to test the installer), but I think this needs to > change in the next release. At least until Dropbox knocks off installing > Growl, our installer will have to uninstall the per-user Growl when one is > present. >
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