Illustrator CC 2014 action no longer works

I have been using an Illustrator action to change a spot color object to another spot color.
My procedure is to paste 2 squares with the “old color” and “new color” defined in the attributes of each square.
When recording the action I select Object > Same Fill Color and replace the old color with the new color. (this works fine for ALL elements in the illustrator document)
However when I play the action on a different file the “Select Same Fill” will not select the existing color elements, only the “old color” square.

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