2Pants Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 I recnetly updated from Alfred 3 to Alfred 4, and one of my automations isn't working. I'm thinking there may be a problem with my permissions but I'm not sure what to do. I see Alfred 4 has permissions everywhere except automations. But for some reason Alfred 4 isn't available to check in automations. But Alfred 3 is.... What do I need to do to fix this? See screenshots below. https://imgur.com/a/lwOmkbU Thanks Link to comment
Terminal Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Try dragging the Alfred 4 app into the automations box Link to comment
Vero Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 @2Pants Alfred will request Automation permissions when he needs it. What isn't working as expected? Could you also let us know which version of Alfred and macOS you're using? Cheers, Vero Link to comment
2Pants Posted June 29, 2020 Author Share Posted June 29, 2020 50 minutes ago, Vero said: @2Pants Alfred will request Automation permissions when he needs it. What isn't working as expected? Could you also let us know which version of Alfred and macOS you're using? Cheers, Vero The automation doesn't work. See my other post linked below. 4.0.9 [1144] Link to comment
2Pants Posted June 29, 2020 Author Share Posted June 29, 2020 2 hours ago, Terminal said: Try dragging the Alfred 4 app into the automations box That doesn't seem to do anything. Should I drag from finder or something else? Link to comment
deanishe Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 3 hours ago, 2Pants said: That doesn't seem to do anything. Should I drag from finder or something else? No. Like Vero said, you'll be asked to grant Automation permission as needed. There's no mechanism to authorise it in advance. Judging by your description of your problem in the other thread, you've configured a Hotkey in the workflow that's already assigned in the application's Edit menu, so you're actually calling some application action, not the workflow. Check the Edit menu to see if it contains a shortcut the same as the Hotkey you've assigned in Alfred. If there's nothing obvious in there, you can also use Shortcut Detective to see which application actually receives a keyboard shortcut/hotkey. Link to comment
2Pants Posted July 1, 2020 Author Share Posted July 1, 2020 On 6/29/2020 at 5:46 PM, deanishe said: No. Like Vero said, you'll be asked to grant Automation permission as needed. There's no mechanism to authorise it in advance. Judging by your description of your problem in the other thread, you've configured a Hotkey in the workflow that's already assigned in the application's Edit menu, so you're actually calling some application action, not the workflow. Check the Edit menu to see if it contains a shortcut the same as the Hotkey you've assigned in Alfred. If there's nothing obvious in there, you can also use Shortcut Detective to see which application actually receives a keyboard shortcut/hotkey. Tried it. Turns out that's not the case. The edit menu doesn't have anything for that shortcut. I created another shortcut with a 3 button combo that's very unique and it has the same behavior. Link to comment
deanishe Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 4 hours ago, 2Pants said: The edit menu doesn't have anything for that shortcut. Right. That's probably the workflow/Alfred firing ⌘C at the app to get the selection. It doesn’t need automation permission to use copy/paste. If it did, the spell function wouldn’t work either. Something else is wrong. What does Alfred’s debugger say? Link to comment
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