Font Book Automatic Font Activation

Hello
I have been happily using Automatic Font Activation from font book for quite long time. Today i noticed that feature absolutely died. Did not heal cleaning caches, restarting ATS Server via ATSUtil in Terminal command line. Simply feature stop to work and i did not really change anything.
Please anyone could help me fix it?
Do not suggest me any 3rd party apps i just liked it way it was before it stop working
If that help, problem occurs only on my Mac Pro. All seem to work fine on my Macbook Pro

You've done your trouble shooting!
Try repairing disk permissions. It can fix a myriad of problems.
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
If that doesn't help, try forcing background tasks...
Mac OS X: How to force background maintenance tasks (logs and temporary items)

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