Automator screwing up

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Before I start, I want to make it clear that all of the issues I've made threads about result from a clean install of 10.4 on a formatted drive.

Trying to get this one simple Automator workflow running has been quite a nightmare. Completely aside from Spotlight's retarded and inconsistent behaviour with regards to finding files (the thing it's supposed to be able to do but clearly cannot), there now appears to be an issue with Automator that it produces completely different results depending on whether you run your workflow from within Automator.app itself or as a Finder plugin.

To illustrate, I ran exactly the same workflow twice, once from within Automator, once from within Finder. The workflow is simple: it is meant to pick up files that match a certain keyword, create a zip archive of them and put the renamed archive into a particular folder.

Here is Spotlight picking up the results fine from within Automator.

Here are the files created from the two tests of the workflow. The file names show indicate which ones were produced by the plugin and which were produced within Automator itself.

Look at the contents of the zip files. When I run the workflow from within Automator.app, it works fine. When I run it from the Finder, it goes completely bezerk and does Christ knows what.

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE? :angry:

If anyone has ANY ideas, please let me know, because these bugs are driving me up the wall. This is absolutely the last time I buy a release of OS X prior to at least the X.n.5 point release.

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Thanks. I can confirm this is happening independently on two clean (formatted drive) installs of 10.4, one PB 12" and one Power Mac G5, both mine.

Maybe when I was restoring my Panther preferences via Backup.app, something nasty was put back that's causing trouble. It probably wasn't a good idea to migrate using Backup.app, but I wanted to format rather than archive / install :\

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