Getting the little things right in Mac OS X

You know, Mr. Cowicide, I have the same problem with Mail, but instead of complaining about it, I decided to look for an alternate solution. I use GrowlMail which works 100% of the time and in can be programmed to "ding" for you.

If you solely rely on the ding-sound to make your company check your mail then its not the sound that its the problem, its the lack of proper routines. If you don't have a routine of checking your mail without some mechanical aid (the ding) then you need to look into that. ASAP.

well as far as the whole idea of the Mail.app not hiding when booting up...

i would think the issue with that is...that the program is supposed to check your mail when it opens...isnt that the whole point of an email application?

so in order for the app to check the mail...it has to be not hidden...because from my experience hidden applications dont seem to have the same ability to access things that it needs to access...now i could be wrong but doesnt it sound like it could be a possibility?

i dont konw what to tell you people that have such complaints...at least you are not on a PC using OUTLOOK...yuck...i just tossed in the back of my throat on that one...just get that every app isnt going to do what every person wants it to do...for me its no big deal...i would love to have the new mail sound to work correctly...but it doesnt...so oh well...i use "Mail Unread Menu" for notification...and sometimes it is off a little...

i would much rather deal with the occasional hiccup with Mac OS X then to deal with the total nightmare of Windoze...i have to go lay down now...made myself sick again...lol

well here is my fix for the sound issue...it is a little mail.app addon called...
wait for it...wait for it...lol

"Mail Unread Menu"

and it works great...it puts a colored number in your menu bar when you have new mail...and you can tell it what accounts you want to know about...etc...

i too, find it annoying that the mail sounds are not consistent...and do not rely on them anymore...its a trivial thing to worry about...so since i did worry about it...i improvised and found this software to make my life easier...i found myself always clicking the "Get Mail" button and going back and forth to mail all the time...and it was just killing my experience...but since then...i get what i want from this addon...check it out

When I'm in Finder and I search for something, why does it default to searching the entire friggin computer. I'd much rather search the directory I'm looking at right now.

Really lame bug. Needs to be fixed, or allow a hack to add the default search directory as the current context.

also occasionally iTunes will just become this unidentifyable white window & u hav to force quit it. i really hope apple fixes all this

Is it a bug that time machine is sometimes unable to complete a backup because the user did something like say close his or her MacBook mid backup or that it works upon its next attempt because he or she did not?

Yes, because a company is going to fall apart completely if the mailbox doesn't "ding" when they get new Mail.

This is a very minor issue, and it was properly phrased as such in the post. You, sir, are overreacting to the degree of near insanity.

I agree that this is a good post. It is important that there be a venue for people to bring little, sometimes rare, bugs like this forward. I've had the same problem with email, and it just started about 2 months ago. I'm glad to see it reported here on a widely read blog in addition to the sometimes obscure forums. Maybe Apple will see it. Maybe someone will find a fix.

I'm surprised to be the only one moaning about Mail not being able to hide automatically at login. The new mail sound comes after the issue of hiding Mail in the first place, yes? Why should we have to use plug-ins or Applescripts when the 'hide' tickbox should do it's job properly?
Like I said, do any of Apple actually use Mail? Surely they know Mail is not something that most people automatically want shown, rather just have running in the background- ie hidden. Yet we have to find work-arounds to do it.