Problem with Find Image after macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update (SOLVED)

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I thought I'd document this in a separate topic, in case anyone else encounters this problem.

After applying the macOS Catalina 10.15.7 update (and I'm reasonably certain the update caused my problem), I had problems with macros that used any form of "Find Image".

There's lots of things to check for, but for me, when I looked at System Preferences>Security & Privacy>Screen Recording, I saw an entry for "Keyboard Maestro", but not for "Keyboard Maestro Engine".

Eventually I figured this might be the problem, so in the KM Editor, I used File>Quit Engine and File>Launch Engine to restart the engine. The OS quickly asked me if I wanted "Keyboard Maestro Engine" to have access to Screen Recording, and of course I said "Yes". That solved the problem.

But I encountered a strange thing while trying to debug this problem, before I fixed the permission issue. I had the KM Editor open, and I made a temporary macro that used the Screen Capture action. Then I used "Try" to run the macro. It actually did do a screen capture. Looking back on it now, I would think this should have failed, since the Engine didn't have Screen Recording rights. But oddly enough, it worked. Not sure why.

Anyway, I hope this helps. No, actually, I hope nobody else has to encounter this issue at all. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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This helped me. Thanks! One tweak for me was that I first had to turn off "Full Disk Access" for both Keyboard Maestro.app and the Keyboard Maestro Engine.app before I could get Catalina to prompt me to enable Screen Recording for the Engine.app.

Thanks again!

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I have seen a report that Screen Recording is now suffering the same ridiculous behaviour as Accessibility, where it can be ticked, but unticking and re-ticking is required to grant permission. Sigh.

Some of the Security & Privacy permissions only require Keyboard Maestro.app, and Keyboard Maestro Engine.app gets the permission implicitly. Others require separate permissions for each app.

The consistency level and bugginess of the permission system is beyond belief.

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Thanks for the info - more debugging tricks for the toolbox.

That's exactly what I thought was happening when Screen Capture worked from within the KM Editor.

The consistency level and bugginess of the permission system is beyond belief.

Seriously! It sounds like Windows, which is a terrible thing to say.