Automator app made in Mavericks doesn't work in Snow Leopard

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Automator app made in Mavericks doesn't work in Snow Leopard

Made a simple troubleshooting app for my staff with some dialog boxes (ask for confirmation) and an app restart (killall and open commands). Saved it as an app and it works fine in Mavericks and Mountain Lion. On Snow Leopard, the app opens with the opening file animation but does nothing. It never even shows up in Activity Monitor.

Did I miss a setting somewhere or is Automator just not backwards compatible like that?

Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 21, 2014 11:03 AM

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Tony T1

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Feb 21, 2014 1:37 PM in response to Dreyfuzz

Can you open the App in Automator? If so, re-saving as an App in SL might work

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Eric Root

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Feb 21, 2014 1:40 PM in response to Dreyfuzz

The 'file system/arrangement' is different in Snow Leopard, so you may need to make some changes. Also 10.6 Automator won't work in 10.9, so maybe the are backward ompatibility issues.

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Dreyfuzz Author

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Feb 21, 2014 1:55 PM in response to Tony T1

Opened it up in Automator on SL and it gave me a conversion warning. Saved it without any changes and it worked. Thanks for the idea!

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Slydude

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Feb 22, 2014 2:41 PM in response to Eric Root

Some workflows will work well going from 10.9 backwards to earlier OS / Automator versions but there are going to be many workflows that don't work without modifications. Part of the issue will be file system arrangement as you suggested.

Another source of problems could be that the behavior of various workflow actions may change from one version of Automator to another. Several of the Address Book / Contacts related actions, for example, no longer work the same way that the did. This was true even before the name of the Address Book was changed to Contacts.

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