What is 'Growl' and why do I need it?

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Harold Coates Author

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What is 'Growl' and why do I need it?

My system keeps telling me to install GROWL.
What is it and why do I need it?

Harold

17"MBPro 4GB 2.4ghz w/ext. monitor, Mac OS X (10.5.8), HD's=7TB / iLife6 / FCxps3.5 / AppleTV / iPad3G

Posted on Sep 28, 2010 7:12 AM

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Answer 1

macjack

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Sep 28, 2010 7:26 AM in response to Harold Coates

Growl is a third party utiltiy for manipulating parts of the OS and displaying "notifications". It sounds like you once had it installed. To remove go here...
http://growl.info/documentation/growl-package-removal.php

EDIT: It's not your system telling you, it's a Growl notification.

-mj

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Answer 2

Jolly Giant

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Sep 28, 2010 7:36 AM in response to Harold Coates

FWIW, i chose to install growl because i like what it does (i.e. it notifies me when a task i set one of my other Macs to is completed).

it's completely harmless and uses very little system resources.

J GG

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Answer 3

red_menace

Level 6

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Sep 28, 2010 8:18 AM in response to Harold Coates

Some applications include a Growl installer (to provide some additional types of notification dialogs), in which case they would (should) ask you if you want to install it. There are a couple of unfriendly applications that don't ask to install (see the Growl website), but the installation is supposed to be optional and won't affect the operation of the application if it isn't there. If you don't want to install Growl, just check the "don't ask again" checkbox in the installation dialog to keep it from asking when the application is run again.

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