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 More options Oct 25 2008, 10:20 pm
From: captainslim
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:20:05 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, Oct 25 2008 10:20 pm
Subject: Re: Gmail Notifier for Mac not checking as often?
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I'll add a "me too" here. They seem to have introduced a bug in the
latest version of Google Notifier for the Mac. I have it installed on
a Macbook, and I'm not sure it ever checks at all unless I select
Check Now. There doesn't seem to be any related setting to fiddle
with.

On Oct 25, 12:23 pm, Jernomer wrote:

> I too am having the same problem on my MacBook. The notifer used to
> check every 1-2 minutes, but now after the update it is checking every
> 5-8 minutes or so. It is really annoying and I hope it gets fixed.

> On Oct 25, 2:02 am, Hombre3000 wrote:

> > I'm getting the same thing. I'm running the latest version
> > (1.10.4.676) on my MacBook. It gets to 5 minutes until I manually
> > check. That's not right . . the whole point of this is so that you
> > don't have to check it.
> > Hey Goog-masters, any answer on this?

> > On Oct 23, 1:36 pm, wjfischer wrote:

> > > Glad I'm not the only one this is happening to.  I have been looking
> > > all over the place for a "minutesbetweenchecks" type setting, but to
> > > no avail.  No luck...I even looked at downloading other programs as a
> > > replacement

> > > On Oct 23, 2:56 pm, Billy G wrote:

> > > > This happened to me on my MacBook as well.  Since the update
> > > > installed, I've seen "Checked [4, 6, even 8] min ago".  What annoys me
> > > > is that I'm used to getting a notification, checking the new email,
> > > > and the notification goes away in the next 60 seconds.  If the
> > > > notification displays for up to 8minutes, I keep thinking there's a
> > > > new email since the one I've read.  Hopefully Gmail resets it back to
> > > > the original, or adds an "minutesbetweencheckssetting" to the Mac
> > > > which PC's apparently already have.

> > > > On Oct 23, 11:08 am, wjfischer wrote:

> > > > > My GmailNotifierfor Mac updated itself last night, and since then it
> > > > > has been checking mail every 5minutes, instead of about every 1
> > > > > minute like before.  Is there a way to change this back?  I don't want
> > > > > to potentially wait 5x as long for the thing to tell me that I have
> > > > > mail.


 
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