Mail sound changed by itself; can't get previous one back
My "New mail" sound has always been the "incoming jet" sound I suppose we're all familiar with. Today, for no reason I can discern, it changed to something resembling a harp. (I've neither seen nor installed any Apple 10.5.6 updates today.)
Checking Mail's Preferences, I found it's called, apparently, "New Mail Sound." None of the ones shown in the list (Basso - Tink) sound like the harp. Worse, none sound like the jet, which I've always liked -- it seems to have vanished. When I check my home directory's Library/Sounds folder, it's empty.
Does anyone have an idea where my jet sound has gone? Or why this harp-like sound has the rather non-descriptive name "New Mail Sound" and is given a privileged place in the selections rather than appearing in the list?
Interestingly, my incoming mail sound has always been a rather anemic ding sort of sound. The Jet sound that you speak of has been, and after a Leopard install, still is, my Outgoing mail sound. This kind of makes sense, in that the Jet sound indicates that my outgoing mail has been sent and is winging it's way to the recipient. What is your Sent/Outgoing mail sound?
It kind of sounds like something in Mail has gone wonky. Somewhere on the Apple site, you can find and download mail. I was there just the other day trying to solve the one little Mail fluke I came upon when loading Leopard, which was that none of the sounds will work without the "play user interface sound effects" box checked in System Preferences/sound/sound effects. I didn't have to have that checked under Tiger, which was fine as I don't like the dippy trash empty sound Etc that those effects provide. Maybe a fresh Mail download will help you.
Other than that, about all I can suggest is running permissions, doing a shut down/restart, zapping the pram and maybe running Disc Warrior if you have it.
Good luck ~
Jon
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