Disappearing Macros

Questions & Suggestions
1

Maybe this is pilot error, but I’m having trouble understanding how it happened…

About a week ago, I made four macros. One pair launched and quit App X when USB device X was connected or discconected, the other doing the same with App Y and USB device Y. They worked perfectly.

I do not remember making any adjustments to them after setting them up. I used them daily, and was very happy to have them working. Today, I plugged in USB device X, and nothing happened. Same thing with USB device Y. I went looking for the macros in KM, but they were gone.

I solved this by Reverting Macros back one day. I have no recollection of adjusting or deleting anything in KM in the last week. Any ideas what’s going on? How I can avoid a repeat performance?

Thanks

2

Other than syncing, no much will affect your macros except you.

It’s not overly hard to delete macros or macro groups, and run-away macros can do it fairly easily too, so perhaps an errant macro deleted the macros.

Other than that, it is hard to say.

3

You might peek in the Engine.log for Keyboard Maestro, accessible from the Editor’s Help menu (Open Logs Folder). Hunt down the date and see what macros were executed.