Automator Permission to modify files in finder?

I gave Automator full disk access as suggested. Nothing changed.

Automator has a choice of "Find Finder Items". You can give it parameters. Example, Find Finder Items that are in a directory you choose, that were last modified 5 days ago. This should produce a list in the "Results" section of Automator with the names of the files found. It says there were no results. There clearly are files in that directory that do have a last modified date of 5 days ago.

Any other thoughts? Thank you.

I'm just trying to re-build what I had for an app. (My old apps all have full disk access, but don't work.) It seems I can't find anything using Spotlight. (Or I need to learn how to search with it all over again.) In looking for any file with a jpg file type, it returns nothing. There are thousands of files with jpg so, something is messed up. Thanks for your help. I'm going to go back to school and learn how to use spotlight so it finds things on the mac that are there.

Well, it seems that rebuilding the index for the entire device fixed the issue. Or at least, I'll say it ran last night without error.

It seems using "migration assistant" is NOT the way to go. In the end, it seems like more work, due to all the things it breaks. Thanks for your help!