If you want to set Google Notifier to check for new mail by your own setting, instead of some magical arbitrary preset that isn’t revealed in the preferences, follow these directions,
If you click on the mail icon, then hold down command and option keys while clicking on preferences in the drop down box, you will be prompted with a box that has a key and value prompt. Type “AutocheckInterval” under key (this seems to be case-sensitive) and then under value type in the number in minutes of how often you want it checked. You will need to quit out of the notifier (again found in the drop down box under the mail icon) and then run the app again for your change to take effect. I typed in 1 and it is checking every minute or so now for me. I hope this works for everyone else too.
I’ve had Google Notifier set to check for email every 1 minute successfully for the past day or two now. I wish Google would update Notifier for OS X, but this is an acceptable workaround until they do.
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Tom
Thanks for the tip – since I updated it’s been irritating me a lot that it didn’t check regularly.
Seems to have done the job.
Posted on 03 Jul 2009 at 7:01 am | Permalink