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Today I'm dealing with the following problem:
Is there some way I can get rid of these without spending my entire day clicking, short of Homer's Drinking Bird?
Note: This is not a duplicate of How do I clear All OS X notifications with 1 click?, because the notifications in my question aren't shown at all in the Notification Center, and thus the solution in that question doesn't work for this question.
I started killing processes with "Notification" in their name, and when I hit the one called "NotificationCenter" the smoke finally cleared:
killall NotificationCenter
pkill NotificationCenter works pretty much the same way. And it seems good to restart the process afterwards--its at: /System/Library/CoreServices/NotificationCenter.app/Contents/MacOS/NotificationCenter & (There's probably a more sophisticated way to do this with a single restart signal.)
open /System/Library/CoreServices/NotificationCenter.app
The Apple Script from "software is fun", with 3 votes at the time of writing, in the suggested duplicate gets rid of all "Disk Not Ejected Properly" notifications on High Sierra (additionally you have to allow Script Editor to control the computer in Accessibility preferences as the post suggests):
tell application "System Events"
tell process "NotificationCenter"
set numwins to (count windows)
repeat with i from numwins to 1 by -1
click button "Close" of window i
end repeat
end tell
end tell
