Previous Automator task no longer working in Leopard

Here's what I had - I use the Sonos music system which has a limit on total metadata. The longer the file path the more data was used. Therefore the folder system set up by iTunes (which I could not get rid of no matter what I tried) would end up using a lot of the data limit.
I created an Automator task that did the following:
1. Looked through my iTunes Music folder (on an external hard drive) for any folders.
2. Took the contents of the folders and moved them to the iTunes Music folder.
3. Searched through the iTunes Music folder for the now-empty subfolders
4. Moved these empty subfolders to the trash.
Using Leopard's Automator, I tried running my old workflow and got several error messages. Worse, it appears to have deleted my old workflow (can't find it anywhere) - whether or not Automator deleted it or I did accidentally, I no longer have it.
Trying to replicate the old flow, I simply cannot put together instructions that work. I can't seem to empty the folders out, so that the folders in the trash are filled with the songs. Once I even accidentally moved the whole iTunes folder into the trash. I can't get the last "move to trash" command to work without an error message though it seems to actually work no matter that there's an error message.
This shouldn't be too hard, but maybe I'm forgetting something simple. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Stu

It sure does appear that somehow the parental controls are linked to the widget issue in some fashion. I have two different accounts for my children (each with parental controls), one for my wife (no parental controls), a guest account and of course my administrative account.
After reading your replies I solved my problem (at least for now) by: 1) turning off the parental controls on my children's accounts; 2) logging into each existing account and; 3) logging back into the administrative account. When I finally got back into my own account, the widgets were all working again just like they did before. We'll see if this resolves the issue for the long-term (or at least until Apple can patch Leopard a little bit more).
Hope this helps.
Thanks

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Automator workflow no longer working under Leopard

Here's what I had - I use the Sonos music system which has a limit on total metadata. The longer the file path the more data was used. Therefore the folder system set up by iTunes (which I could not get rid of no matter what I tried) would end up using a lot of the data limit.
I created an Automator task that did the following:
1. Looked through my iTunes Music folder (on an external hard drive) for any folders.
2. Took the contents of the folders and moved them to the iTunes Music folder.
3. Searched through the iTunes Music folder for the now-empty subfolders
4. Moved these empty subfolders to the trash.
Using Leopard's Automator, I tried running my old workflow and got several error messages. Worse, it appears to have deleted my old workflow (can't find it anywhere) - whether or not Automator deleted it or I did accidentally, I no longer have it.
Trying to replicate the old flow, I simply cannot put together instructions that work. I can't seem to empty the folders out, so that the folders in the trash are filled with the songs. Once I even accidentally moved the whole iTunes folder into the trash. I can't get the last "move to trash" command to work without an error message though it seems to actually work no matter that there's an error message.
This shouldn't be too hard, but maybe I'm forgetting something simple. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Stu

Adam,
Numbers 3 should be free if you had it on your machine before (you were using Numbers 3 before, right?). In App Store you might try clicking 'Account' under Quick Links and Reset all warnings for buying and downloading. And, if necessary, also contact Apple to get that charge reversed.
I can't reproduce the script problem here. The fact that the Paste and Match Style is greyed seems to suggest that your copy of Numbers thinks there is nothing in the clipboard... Are you sure you don't have one of the many clipboard enhancement type applications on your machine?
To test that you could try manually copying text into the clipboard (from say, TextEdit) and check to see if Numbers accepts a paste.
Another thing to try: run the script from AppleScript Editor to see if you get the expected results from there.
And also try this: Open Terminal and at the ~ prompt type this command:
    date +%H:%M
It should respond immediately with the time in 24-hour format.
If you do get the time as expeced and you can't the the original script to work again, then try the script below, which avoids the clipboard.
SG
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atrofix wrote:
Hello. I have a favorite screen saver that would no longer work when I installed Leopard...and it also does not work with Snow Leopard either.
Can anyone tell me if I might be able to fix it and make it Snow Leopard compatible?
check with the vendor of that screensaver to see if there is a SL compatible version.
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I have used the fax on my PowerBook for years up through Tiger and it continues to work on my iMac with Tiger. But neither of two machines with Leopard will answer the phone anymore (except manually with "Answer Now").
I posted this previously, sorry if this is bad etiquette, but in my business I really need the fax and also from the replies I received previously, I decided I wasn't clear enough ...
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I had the same problem and found this thread while looking for the answer. After some troubleshooting I looked at the system log and found the following errors messages:
Aug 14 21:38:23 silverbox com.apple.efax[73412]: /usr/bin/fax: line 537: cd: /var/spool/fax: No such file or directory
Aug 14 21:40:23 silverbox com.apple.efax[73462]: /usr/bin/fax: line 563: /var/log/fax/tty.modem.log: No such file or directory
I created these two directories:
/var/spool/fax
/var/log/fax
They are both owned by root, permissions 755. Now it automatically answers incoming faxes.
If you are still having problems, check your log for those error messages, or just try creating those directories. Hope that helps!

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Hi Frank. Thanks for the response.
(Mentioning Windows 8 was a joke, as I'm sure you know! ;-)
Here's what the workflow looks like; you'll note the "all green" log at the bottom!
By the way, when I run it, iTunes does launch; but it doesn't play anything. And there IS a WCPE entry; it's a radio station that is in the list of radio stations/Classical and that entry has also been copied to one of my playlists.
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I cannot create a new thread on this forum in Safari, however. It works in Firefox, but in Safari there is no button (link) to create a new thread.
*Hi M'S', Welcome* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
A bit of a puzzler there. The button to create a new thread is *not in Safari, it's on the forum page.* (Not the Categories page, a bunch of folders, a level too far back.)
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2) Set the Firewall in Leopard to Allow Specific applications and service and add iChat to the list.
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Dropbox automator script no longer working with Mavericks

Hi,
I use two versions of the following shell script (found on the net), launched by automator, to set up two Dropbox accounts :
Since upgrading to Mavericks, the script hangs when execution is requested. If the execution is then stopped and then requested a second time, the script terminates normally. Anyone have any idea why this might be (I am no expert of either shell scripts or automator) ?

ok then do this. Once you have your first Dropbox account set up try the following steps:
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HOME=$HOME/Dropbox-second /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox &
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