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Automator quits unexpectedly on load

May 19, 2007 1:08PM PDT

Has anyone else experienced this problem? My Automator program quits every time I open it. I just recently got my Mac so there are several programs I've installed since the last time I used Automator, making it hard to say if one of them is fooling with it.

Can anyone shed some light on what might be the cause of this?

I've tried uninstalling the last 3 programs I installed (an web server, google earth, and a screen capture app) but it still crashes.

I've also tried getting my Mac OS X install disc and installing the packages from the disc, but I wasn't sure if it would overwrite the current Automator so I didn't install it first. Should I have?


My technical specs (as the error report says) are:

Model: Macmini, 2 processors, Intel Core Duo, 1.66 GHz, 1 GB

Not sure if you will need any more info, but if you do let me know.

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Automator
May 20, 2007 12:34AM PDT

I know this procedure is vastly overused, but try the Repair Permissions route to see if there is any improvement.

your suggestion about installing it from the OS X installation disk is a reasonable one. If you can find the package for Automator, go ahead and install it. If it goes to the applications folder, as it should, then it will overwrite the one that is already there.

It's worth a try

P

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May 20, 2007 1:09AM PDT

I tried going to Utilities and repairing the permissions, but that didn't solve the problem =(

When trying to uninstall the Automator application and then install it from the packages on the OSX Install disc, I found that it wasn't one of the programs bundled into it... I don't understand why it wouldn't have installed Automator with all of the other products Mac OS X came with!

If anyone could get any valuable information from the error log, you can download it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?4hzwddiccdx just click "start download" on the right

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Wooh! Found it!
May 20, 2007 1:23AM PDT

Sorry for the double post but I just wanted to say I fixed the problem!

One forum suggested that an "Action" in Library/Automator/ was failing to load properly, so I moved the action PMQuickSchedule 11-19-11.action out of the folder temporarily to see if that would help.

Automator now works properly Happy

Thanks for your input guys

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(NT) Way to go!
May 20, 2007 9:56PM PDT