After installing Mountain Lion, the Automator Runner app no longer works. At the same time, opening a workflow through Automator app and pressing the Run button executes the code flawlessly.
Is there a quick fix for the Automator Runner, or have we got to wait for a Mountain Lion update?
OS X Mountain Lion
Try repairing your permissions. Go to applications then to the "other" folder then go to disk utility, on the left hand side you will see a white box. Select the second option, usually called "mac HD" with that selected click on "repair permissions" in the center towards the bottom of the screen. Wait for it to complete, then see if this fixes the issue.
If that does not work try opening the workflow in Automator, running it once to make sure it works, then re-save the workflow. This has fixed similar problems in the past after an upgrade.
Thanks to both of you, but, unfortunately, none of your suggestions have fixed the problem.
However, I have managed to find a solution, and it's a doddle, really!
All one needs to do is convert the workflow into an application, by selecting File>Convert to and choosing "Application". One must be careful, though, to make sure it is saved as an application; specifically, once the workflow is converted into an app, hit command+save, and in the popped up window, set File Format to "application" (note that it is set to "workflow" by default).
This is simple to do, of course, though it has become a small bit of a niggle, hasn't it? I do not quite understand why Mountain Lion impels us to make a (not exactly trivial) extra step where Lion didn't. Must be something about the low pressure up there...
Cheers!
Look in the Activity Monitor or atMonitor. If Automator Launcher is running but not active, then try running the service and watching the Launcher for activity. If you do not see a surge of activity when you try running the service, then the Launcher is probably hung. Try killing the Launcher process and running the service again. That worked for me.
This worked for me. In Activity Monitor I had about 30 copies of "Automator Runner" going, all red/not responding. Force quitting one of them made my keyboard shortcuts and workflows functional again.
Automator Runner not working in Mountain Lion
