Following on from the posts (partially-) quoted below, I can confirm the following:
1. My PM alert sounds have disappeared again (a few hours ago in fact, no idea of the trigger). 2. The Mac's alert sounds are also kaput -- no 'whoop' in iChat for example, and nothing heard if I tinker with the Sound Effects panel of the Sound Prefs Pane (changing the alert sound or moving the Alert Volume slider, for example). So it is not restricted to PM. 3. iTunes plays fine as do QT movies. 4. Changing the Output Volume (whether via the Output Volume slider in Sound Prefs Pane or by hitting my vol up/down keys) does still deliver the 'volume change' feedback noise. 5. Neither changing PM's alert sound in PM prefs *nor* changing the alert volume in Sound Prefs Pane causes anything to be written to system.log, according to Console. So... where does this leave us? Is it unrelated to PM? Or is PM triggering an audio alert fallover at system level? It's a bit beyond my diagnostic skills at this point. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.7 :: PM 5.5.1 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio <www.sharkattack.co.uk> -- I wrote: >I'm still finding that after a while the alert sounds (well, all the >sounds) from Powermail are being silenced. I have no idea what triggers >it -- maybe something to do with iTunes or Quicktime? -- but it's >actually rather annoying and more of a productivity block than I wold >have expected. Then Hiro wrote: >I don't think I have ever seen anyone reported this. When you lost PM >sound, you are sure your Mac alert is still alive? > >When you lost PM sound, open Console.app, have it display system.log, go >to PM pref and make PM sound by selecting different sound. Do you see >any new error entry in system.log
