After Latest Upgrade, All Keystroke Macros Have Stopped Working

Questions & Suggestions
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What I did:

  • Upgraded to latest

What happened:

  • All macros that were triggered by keystrokes stopped working.

(I am running Keyboard Maestro 10.2 on Mac OS X Version 12.6.1 (Build 21G217))

Help!

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  • Latest macOS?
  • Latest version of Keyboard Maestro?
  • Latest what?
     
  • Have you run the Interactive Help from the Keyboard Maestro Editor's Help menu?
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Have you checked that Keyboard Maestro and the Keyboard Maestro Engine have the correct permissions?

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  • I am running Keyboard Maestro 10.2 on Mac OS X Version 12.6.1 (Build 21G217)).
  • Just upgraded KM to this version.
  • Worked perfectly before upgrade to 10.2.
  • All permissions enabled.
  • Problem related to any macro that contains "paste" or "insert text". No such macro works.
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  • Have you read the troubleshooting page @noisneil linked to?

  • Have you toggled the requisite permissions off and back on again?

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Well I certainly lost a lot of time on this and it was quite frustrating. Somehow the Accessibility permissions for KBM got turned off.

Gee, couldn't the app have saved me a lot of trouble by just reporting this to me?

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@peternlewis?

I think Peter would have done this already if it was possible, but I don't think I've heard him answer this one explicitly.

Peter – is it possible to add this to the Interactive Help?

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If the system reports accessibility is disabled, Keyboard Maestro reports it with a warning message/warning triangles in the editor and the status menu.

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That said, the security system is so buggy that sometimes the system tells Keyboard Maestro is has accessibility permissions when it does not.

And actually, on top of that, when I turned off Accessibility permissions in the system preferences (to get those screenshots), the system locked my UI entirely so I have to do a force restart.

So basically, yes, Keyboard Maestro does its best to report this to you.

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Insane that Apple has chosen to not fix bugs in such a vital system component...

How many years now?

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Yes I did see those triangles, but when I visited system preferences all appeared well. Only a few days later did I see that the settings were not there. Just glad to have KM back!

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Since Mojave, so that is 2018.

4 years, four major macOS updates. All with various issues around system permissions.

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