All of the automation actions and services that worked so well in Lion now fail silently under Mountain Lion. As well, the Automator.app crashes on launch -- every time. Has 10.8 killed MacOS X automation entirely or can I fix this?
Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 12 TB Disk Space
You are going to have to be a lot more specific about what is failing - Automator works just fine on my machine. Does it do the same thing in a new account?
I was able to fix this problem by booting into the Recover disk and performing the following operations:
1) Disk Utility: repair permissions (only a few permissions related to printing were off and fixed)
2) Terminal: resetpassword and then reset my personal ACLs and permissions
3) Attempted to startup in "safe" mode twice but that process took way longer than it should have so I powered down.
After restarting normally, all was well again. Not only did Automator launch properly but services that had previously failed (silently) were now operative.
Why does automator crash under MacOS X 10.8?
