Most of my triggers (string) have stopped working

Questions & Suggestions
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Most of my triggers (string) have stopped working. The only ones that do seem to work have only brackets or arrows in them. Any suggestions how to troubleshoot the problem would be greatly appreciated.

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Whenever a macro "does nothing", the answer is to use the Interactive Help in the Help menu and select Something expected is not happening.

The reason for this is that I tend to get support email saying "My macro doesn't do anything", and since I prefer people not have to email me, and in any event I'd have to ask all the same questions: Is the engine running, are there security issues, is the macro group enabled, is the macro group active, etc. Then you have to figure out if the problem is the macro not triggering, or the actions not doing what you expect them to do.

The Interactive Help checks all this for you and verifies whether the macro is active and whether it triggers.

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Thank you for your prompt response. I have already tried all of your suggestions. The macros run when I select “run” and they work when I change the trigger to a hot key. They just beep, and nothing happens when I try to trigger them with a string that includes an alpha character. I even tried switching keyboards but I got the same result. I have now isolated the problem to NOT striking the string all at once. If I hit the keys sequentially, the macro seems to work. Am I misunderstanding something about KM?

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“The Typed String trigger lets you execute a macro in response to a sequence of keys.”
– trigger:Typed String [Keyboard Maestro Wiki]

If by “striking the string all at once” you mean pressing more than one key at the same time, and it did, as you say, use to work, I wonder exactly what sort of trigger it really was, if it wasn’t a hotkey combination. Please check and send precise details.

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I'm with @kevinb on this one: Typed String triggers are designed to be typed in sequence, not mashed at once like a chord. I'm not aware of this ever being different in any older versions of Keyboard Maestro.

So if they worked for you at some point, I'm as confused as @kevinb is! :slight_smile:

-rob.

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Thank you!

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Thank you

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