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*Cross posted from the 10.6 board.*
A very simple Automator script that I've used for some time now on several 10.5 machines refuses to work under 10.6. The contents are:
*Find Finder Items*
-on Desktop
-Whose size is less than 1 gb
*Move Finder Items to Trash*
That's it. This has worked and continues to work on all the 10.5 machines, but the one that I've upgraded to 10.6 now gives an error which states:
"The Action 'Move Finder Items to Trash" has encountered an error. Check the action's properties and try running the workflow again."
HALP! I'm not sure why this wouldn't work, I've redone the workflow on the affected machine to make sure there's no conflict between Automator versions, and still no joy. Any ideas?

I don't know much about Automator. However I have noticed that the action “Find Finder Items on Desktop whose size is less than 1 GB” seems to consider the Desktop itself as one of its items, which is the reason why the next action, “Move Finder Items to Trash”, becomes impossible. So just add the condition “whose name is not Desktop” to the first action.
Btw, your Automator script could be replaced with the following one-line AppleScript script:
*tell application "Finder" to move (items of desktop whose size is less than 1.0E+9) to trash*
Message was edited by: Pierre L.

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