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What is Growl?
More info about Growl
https://www.dropbox.com/help/48
What is Growl? How does Dropbox use it?
From Growl's website: "Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: It allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications." In other words, Growl lets Dropbox notify you of any Dropbox activity right on your desktop. If Dropbox detects Growl is installed on your Mac, it will use it to display all Dropbox notifications.
Growl notifications appear at the top right corner of the screen. A Growl notification will appear whenever new changes are made to the contents of your Dropbox, such as a newly added file or a change to a shared folder.
Note from David:
Therefore, "growlhelperapp" is a support file of Growl, which is placed on your system if you use Dropbox — that is, if you have enabled the Dropbox App.
Growl appeared on my system yesterday, after I subscribed to Dropbox and enabled the Dropbox app. Whem the Dropbox App is enabled, it adds GrowlHelperApp — among other places — in the Login Items in your Accounts. Accounts is found in your System Preferences.
Also, since Growl serves as a notification tool, it might be placed on your system by means other than Dropbox. That is, it might be placed on your system by any number of applications that use Growl for notification purposes. By "notification" I mean, for example, that Growl is the way in which Dropbox notifies me that someone has added something new to one of my Dropbox folders.
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