macrodroid requires permission, macro not highlighted

[420]

i'm having a small issue, i revoked the storage permission for macrodroid, because i didn't think i was using it in any of my macro's, now a notification came up saying;

"Macrodroid requires permission - Write to File requires READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission"

this is good, because i did not know i was using a "write to file" action in any of my macro's, but now my issue is that the macro that holds this action is not highlighted by a purple line, which normally happens if there is a problem with a macro..

is this a bug? or is it normal that we have to open up and search through every single macro to find the write to file action?

i just want to know what it is writing and to what file and if it's still neccecary to have that action...

 

[Pseudocyclic]

I don't think you'll get the notification if the macro is disabled or is in a disabled category, try disabling categories to find where the macro is and then macros in that category to find the one you need.

 

[420]

I don't think you'll get the notification if the macro is disabled or is in a disabled category, try disabling categories to find where the macro is and then macros in that category to find the one you need.

you are saying i should grant the permission again, then disable a category, then revoke the permission again and see if the notification comes back? and repeat this for all category's untill i find the correct category, and then grant the permission again, enable said category and disable 1 of the macro's in said category and revoke the permission again and repeat this untill i find the correct macro?

that's still gonna be quite a bit of work, but i gues i'll try it.. thanks

 

[420]

you are saying i should grant the permission again, then disable a category, then revoke the permission again and see if the notification comes back? and repeat this for all category's untill i find the correct category, and then grant the permission again, enable said category and disable 1 of the macro's in said category and revoke the permission again and repeat this untill i find the correct macro?

that's still gonna be quite a bit of work, but i gues i'll try it.. thanks

turns out i did not have to grant/revoke permission every time, if i just disable a category and enable it again it will also show the notification, so i've found it now, was easier then expected! and it turns out the write to file action does exist, but it was already disabled

 

[Pseudocyclic]

Note that you can put an action in a disabled macro, and then run the macro (even though it's disabled) from another macro using the Macro Run action...

 

[Jacob L]

Troubleshooting section not say anything?

 

[MacroDroidDev]

You should see a purple error warning if there is a missing permission, but maybe this is one case it's not working correctly. I will check.

 

[MacroDroidDev]

It seems that there is not any error shown in the macro when a permission is disabled. I'm not sure if it's always been this way or has been broken at some point. In any case the troubleshooting section should list any macros that require this permission.