Mountain Lion: Can't uninstall GrowlMail

[Lachlan Payne]

I've just updated my OS to Mountain Lion and now every time I open Mail I get an error message telling me GrowlMail has been disabled (see attached). 

However, I can't uninstall GrowlMail — which I no longer want to use — and the uninstaller gives me its own error message (see attached).

So, how do I uninstall GrowlMail on Mountain Lion so that I don't get an annoying error message every time I open Mail?

[Charlie S]

http://code.google.com/p/growlmail/downloads/list Try that uninsaller, might have to get around Gatekeeper

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[Lachlan Payne]

That is the uninstaller I have tried multiple times. Doesn't work. Same old error messages.

[Rudy Richter]

The uninstaller is just an applescript that quits mail.app and deletes two paths if they exist. and it worked when i ran it here, its certainly possible that the permissions on the paths it removes aren't sufficient but it should prompt for admin privileges to run the script anyway.

display dialog (localized string "title")

if button returned of result = "OK" then

try

quit application id "com.apple.mail"

end try

do shell script "rm -rf /Library/Mail/Bundles/GrowlMail.mailbundle ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/GrowlMail.mailbundle" with administrator privileges

display dialog (localized string "succeeded") buttons {localized string "OK"} default button 1

end if

[Lachlan Payne]

As I said, I've run the script — multiple times — and only ever get an error. It appears that the files it's trying to remove aren't even there, but something is telling Mail that GrowlMail is installed — even though I can find no evidence of it anywhere on my MBP — and so I get an additional error from Mail every single time I open it.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Tomasz Zajączkowski]

Please -- anyone... How do I remove this annoying message when launching Mail 6.0 (same as shown in the original post in this thread)??? It drives me nuts -- have already tried an uninstall and manual delete (I don't seem to have this Bundles directory in 10.8).

Anyone, please, any suggestions??

[Fad]

This is the same problem that I faced and I just want to get rid off them. Seriously I do not understand the script you gave here Rudy. Should I just copy and past or change anything to the script. Could you give something that ready such an uninstaller straight away?

Thanks

[Rudy Richter]

The only way the AppleScript is going to run without the error is if you change your gatekeeper setting so that all applications can run. As of 10.7 apple hides the Library folder in your home directory. Lastly, if mail says growlmail is there, then it is definitely in /Library/Mail/Bundles or ~/Library/Mail/Bundles I would suggest pasting each path into the go to folder command under the finder's go menu.

-rudy

[Lachlan Payne]

Huzzah! Pasting ~/Library/Mail/Bundles in to Finder>Go>Go to Folder showed up the incriminating Growlmail bundles. Manually deleted them and problem solved. No more annoying error message.

Many thanks.

[Fadhir Tahar]

I could not find the Mail or bundles folder under library. Any suggestion?

-fad-

[Fadhir Tahar]

problem solved! thanks so much!!!

[mhurford]

TO FIX THIS EASILY:

OPEN TERMINAL paste: chflags nohidden ~/Library/

This will allow you to see the Library in mountain lion under your username. <username>/library/mail/bundles     MANUALLY DELETE GROWLMAIL and most probably the 100+ Bundles (disabled folders)

[urbanmode]

Thanks so much, changing the setting to allow applications downloaded from 'anywhere' did the trick and I was able to successfully uninstall growlmail without getting an error.

[Hijacker]

Could you, step by step, tell me what you had to do to work out the problem ? I got some error with ML and Mail 6.1...

[Hijacker]

As not said, I worked out the problem ;-)

Many thanks to Chas4 and Rudy Richter!

[Peter Hartig]

Thanks Rudi. Your fix worked for me too. Great :-)

/Peter

[Peter Hartig]

Many thanks Rudy. This worked for me too :-)

/Peter

[Christopher Moore]

This solution worked flawlessly, thanks so much.