When I double click on a macro I exported it automatically imports those actions into the macro it was exported from. Is this new behavior part of Keyboard Maestro 8 and how you can drag actions into other actions? I even renamed the Macro in the Finder and it did the same thing. Then I also renamed the Macro in Keyboard Maestro and still the same results of importing the actions into the macro that was there essentially duplicating the macro within itself.
I am not sure why I would ever want this behavior, it seems much safer to make a second macro with the name duplicate at the end. I would be scared to test what would happen if I exported my entire library and then opened it.
Bingo, thanks Chris that is exactly what happened. Has Keyboard Maestro always done this? I have opened probably hundreds of macros and never noticed this. Perhaps I just never noticed it or have never had the macro selected or likely both. Great to know, added that to the knowledge pool and bag of tricks. Thanks!
I am not sure I understand what changed, I just reconfirmed that in Keyboard Maestro 8 it exports the selected actions only. Is the difference in Keyboard Maestro 8 that it has the extension .kmactions for exporting only the selected actions?