Mount & unmount volume notifications

Question

For the last month or so, I have been receiving notification windows in the upper right-hand corner whenever a volume is mounted or unmounted (i.e. portable hard drive, Time Machine, etc.) How do I turn these notifications off?

Answer 1

If Growl is installed and you want to turn off just the notifications for volume mounts and dismounts (as opposed to getting rid of Growl altogether):

• System Preferences, Growl panel
• Applications tab
• Select HardwareGrowler from the list
• Configure
• Notifications tab
• In the dropdown, for each notification (e.g. Volume Mounted) you want to disable:
• Select it and untick the 'Enabled' box.

(Edit:) Or, as fnurl points out, remove HG entirely. I find it useful enough to keep, but tweaked to my liking. It alerts me if my WiFi starts bouncing, f/ex. YMMV, as always.

Answer 2

Check to see if you have Growl installed - it will be in System Preferences. Sometimes applications install it without your permission - even though the growl team explicitly don't allow it. Its safe though, I use and love the product.

Answer 3

I use HardwareGrowler to get these messages.

Perhaps HardwareGrowler is launching at startup? If you do not want this, go to

System Preferences → Accounts → Your Account → Login items

and find HardwareGrowler and remove it from the list.