Automator doesn't recognize GrowlHelperApp

[mmouse]

I have two computers running Tiger (10.4.2) and Growl 0.7. On the first one, Automator recognizes and lists GrowlHelperApp in the list of applications. On the second computer, no matter what I try I can't get Automator to list GrowlHelperApp and its action (Show Growl Notification).

Any ideas on how to force it to see GrowlHelperApp or how to empty its cache/registry of Applications and try again?

Other notes:
- affects all users on the computer, admin and non-admin
- doesn't respond to prefs being deleted
- Graphic Converter, downloaded to test this, shows up after first launch
- reboots do not solve the issue
- pulling GrowlHelperApp out of the prefpane package and putting it in /Applications has no effect
- pulling the actual action out of the GHA package and putting in ~/Library/Automator has no effect

Any ideas? Thanks so much!

--mmouse

[FiL]

I've got the same problem and resolved it by installing Growl prefpane in the /Library folder instead of ~/Library.

The problem lies in the file Show\ Growl\ Notification.action/Contents/Info.plist.

The AMRequiredResources declares a file resource "/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane"

From ze docs I guess that should be changed to something like that:
<key>AMRequiredResources</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>Display Name</key>
<string>GrowlHelperApp</string>
<key>Resource</key>
<string>com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp</string>
<key>Type</key>
<string>application</string>
<key>Version</key>
<string>0.6</string>
</dict>
</array>


Otherwise the action by itself is quite buggy : the content of the fields "Title" and "Description" is not always took in account.

Should I file a bug on these or it is a know problem ?

[The_Tick]

File tickets for each separate issue, but on the path thing I don't think there is much we can do about it.