I did not express myself clearly. I am trying to figure out what I did to end up with so many macros and how to clean them up. I thought that "uncategorized" would help me. Would you have any suggestion, if only to put me on the right path to finding an answer ? thank you
Oh, sorry; uncategorized just means in terms of MBU's categorizations. I don't think it'd help to find out where they're from.
You could open the backup report, which should list everything; perhaps there may be something there, though that's not much different than just glancing through the list of names in the Editor window.
-rob.
1 Like
Hi, many of my macros start with "_" (underscore) to put them at the start of the list of macros in a group. Was this a bad idea ? Should I batch rename them ? I use MBU a lot (thank you very much !!) and just want to make sure. thank you.
That should be fine—it's only spaces at the beginning that cause issues, as the files would be invisible in Finder.
-rob.
1 Like
thanks very much. I was confusing space and _ as prefix.
And actually, I was mistaken—space at the front would be fine, it's a dot at the front that makes them invisible.
-rob.
1 Like
OK. thanks !
It means the search that's used to help build a list of filenames failed for some reason. Can we take this off the forum thread and into direct messages, as this will probably take some back-and-forth to figure out? Just direct message me, and we'll go from there.
thanks;
-rob.
I’ve read everything I can find about MBU, still I have a question:
Does MBU require that the KM editor t either be open or available during the backup?
The reason I ask is because I notice that my idle timing trigger is not creating a macro backup as often as I would expect. I saw, but didn’t retain, a center screen notification that I thought mentioned something not available. I thought it might be the editor because other non-MBU related macros sometimes close idle apps.
Regards,
Ken
The macro has to run in the Keyboard Maestro Editor, because it uses the Editor's Export command to export all your macros. But MBU will launch Keyboard Maestro Editor if it's not open, and wait for it to be ready:
So while the Editor does not need to be running to use MBU (mine rarely is when I launch a backup), it definitely does need to be available to launch. I'm trying to understand how it wouldn't be available on your Mac, assuming that Keyboard Maestro is installed and the engine is running?
-rob.
Thanx Rob, I appreciate your response. I readily admit that the situation is caused by me and not the macro itself. I have a macro that disables the MBU group and it is probably conflicting with the process.