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Automator Help

Con Moy - 04:49am Jan 6, 2008 PST
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Hi, I have recently bought a 24" 2.4GHz iMac with Mac OS 10.5.1 installed on it.

I have tried using Automators "watch me do" and i wanted to repeat my workflow a few times.

When I add the "Loop" to the workflow, it runs through the loop twice and then stops. Automator says that it is still looping. It doesn't matter if I run the loop for a certain time period or a certain number of executions; it always hangs after the second loop.

This also happens when i use the "run workflow" action, but it repeats 3 times and then does the same thing.

Any Help would be appreciated....

Thanks

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Matt Neuburg (apparently) - Jan 6, 2008 11:34 am (#1 Total: 1)

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Re: Automator Help

On or about 1/6/08 3:49 AM, thus spake "Con Moy" <conormoylan

gmail.com>:

> I have tried using Automators "watch me do" and i wanted to repeat my workflow
> a few times.
>
> When I add the "Loop" to the workflow, it runs through the loop twice and then
> stops

It's a well-established bug.

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Automator-users/2007/Nov/msg00019.html

Variables don't work particularly well either (unless you like variables
with random values). Basically, the "new features" of Automator are very
broken. m.

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