Difference between "active macro" and "enabled macro"?

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This seems to be the answer - i.e. "Active" means the Macro is in a Group which is Active (most likely because that Group is set to work when an App like Photoshop is at the front). "Active" does not mean the Macro is actually running.

Difference between Group enable/disable vs. activate/deactivate

The primary difference between enable/disable and activate/deactivate is that the former is a semi-permanent, editor visible, syncable change. The latter is a transient change, a change of state of the engine. Essentially, the concept of Enable/Disable stems from enabling and disabling groups/macros/actions in the editor, while the concept of activate/deactivate stems from macro groups being active or not in a specific application. The reason for the different behaviour described probably rel…