Growl and Mountain Lion

Question

This is not really a question. It's a piece of information that I'd like to share over here in case somebody had the same problem on his/ her iMac:
I had an issue with one of my external USB HD not ejecting when I wanted it to. After lots of investigation and help from the gurus of this forum, I finally discovered that the Growl app that I had installed a wekk earlier, was the culprit.
When I compeletely uninstalled the app, everything went back to normal.
This is just for your info you guys, sorry if I should have posted this elsewhere, but I have little experience with these forums.
All the best.

Answer 1

Well, appearently an application uses Growl to send notifications.
There are different applications running silently in the background of the MacOS X System, like the helper apps and certain support apps.
So the first step is to move to the System Preferences - Users and check the startup applications. Well, if there are some old remains or an application which uses growl to send notifications - we need to move to the preferences of the application and disable notifications in the application preferences. GeekerTool is a very well known applications, as well as dropbox is.
Both can work without growl - so we need to change the application preferences.
Also some old dashboard widgets might use growl as notification help. We need to check those also.
Check for old dashbard widgets by removing those, and check if the widow reappears... if not, we've found the widget - and can look if there is an update...
In my case it was an old alam clock dashboard widget - which sends out notifications. I removed it, and the window disappeared forever....
Hope this helps you