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My Outlook 2011 icon starts jumps every half hour or so because one account or other has failed to connect. There is no real problem as the account normally resolves itself, but Outlook's jumping icon is difficult to ignore. I don't want to deactivate all icon jumping behaviour - all other posts I've read show how to do this in terminal. I just want to stop Outlook. Does anyone know if this is possible? Outlook has no such setting, so I'm looking for a bash solution.

Thanks in advance

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Outlook –> Preferences… Notifications & Sounds > Bounce Outlook Icon in Dock

Outlook Notifications

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  • Thanks, but that's for new messages. My issue is when Outlook gives notifications about account connection errors. My message bounce setting is unticked but the icon still bounces all the time..
    – geotheory
    Dec 16, 2013 at 17:42
  • You would likely have to dump the strings from the outlook application binary to see if theres a hidden preference for the setting.
    – l'L'l
    Dec 16, 2013 at 17:44
  • How would I go about that?
    – geotheory
    Dec 16, 2013 at 17:46
  • In terminal paste: strings - /Applications/<path to outlook.app>/Contents/MacOS/Outlook > ~/desktop/outlook_strings (you need to find the exact path of Outlook.app). Then search the file on your desktop (outlook_strings) for bounce, or errorperhaps.
    – l'L'l
    Dec 16, 2013 at 17:52

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