| Hi Kasper,
I just created a new custom workflow in Mac OS X 10.5.5 (English). I added the "Find Address Book Items" action to the workflow, and set it to find "People" whose "Last Name" is equal to "Waldie". Then, I ran the workflow, and did not encounter any errors. The action successfully found people matching the specified last name.
Next, I set my system language to Danish, and repeated the process. This time, I received an error when running the workflow, as you described. I tried another language, and also received the error. So, this seems to be a bug with this particular action (and probably the "Filter" action too) not supporting languages other than English.
If you have not done so already, I would recommend filing a bug report with Apple to report the problem. You can do so here...
Or, if you have an Apple Developer Connection membership, here...
Regards,
-Ben
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On Nov 25, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Kasper Monrad wrote: Hello all!
I'm experiencing an extremely annoying problem with Automator: When I try to use the actions "Find people in Address Book" or the one above "Filter people in Address Book" the actions fail. Not in the sense that nothing turns up: to test it I created the group 'test' and made it find the people in that group and what happens is that Automator brings up an box (with a ding! sound) saying the action failed, and that I should check the actions properties. Under Results it says "Action Failed" and in stead of the small green OK sign there's a red stop sign with an x on it.
As stated I tried to search for things I was sure would return something, but that's within the action; in the search field. Even so, without any data it still shouldn't return an error, just no results - right?
The log says that the action failed and could not be completed with varying numbers following: 436426768. I've tried with no actions prior to the faulty ones, and with actions prior: no difference.I've also tried with the newly created user 'test' and no; theres no difference, it still says "Action failed" in stead of just returning no results.
Just to be sure that I'm using it right: if you open Automator and does nothing but drag the "Find persons in Address Book" and sets it to run, what do you get? That's how I get the errors. I thought about trying to replace the action-files, in case it might be corrupt files, but I cannot find them online.
In the Apple Discussions forum a fellow user wrote the following: "It is just another bug in Automator.Or more precise: a bug in Automator´s language resources. I´m from Germany. Same here.I guess the only way to make it work is to disable all languages (except english) in Automator."
So I suspect the error is within the language resources! Please I really need this to work, and preferably in my language (Danish) - how can I make it function?
I have changed nothing with the system, it's a brand new install on a brand new MacBook.
Thank you.
Kasper
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