# Many macros/functions require a restart before working, then stop working after a while

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/many-macros-functions-require-a-restart-before-working-then-stop-working-after-a-while/47905>\
**Category:** Bugs or Unexpected Behavior\
**Tags:** restart\
**Created:** [September 30, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/many-macros-functions-require-a-restart-before-working-then-stop-working-after-a-while/47905 "2026-09-30T19:42:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![gspotrecords](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/aca169/32.png) [@gspotrecords](https://community.folivora.ai/u/gspotrecords)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/many-macros-functions-require-a-restart-before-working-then-stop-working-after-a-while/47905/1 "2026-09-30T19:42:00Z")

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BTT is the absolute best thing on my mac!

However, I've been having this issue for many months - I've set up a floating menu in Finder triggered by some keys which brings up Trigger Snap Areas so I can quickly send a Finder window to an area of my screen. But it only appears and works sometimes. It's been a puzzle.

I'd kind of gotten used to it, but then I was needing to make repetitive reformatting to 200+ pages in an Affinity Publisher document, so i set up a macro to automate the task. The macro would work between one and maybe 7 times and then stop, and the mac would make the "blomp" sound indicating a command was not being sent. The work around I eventually found was to restart BTT, and then I could get some more pages reformatted before it would stop, and I would restart BTT again.

In an "aha!" moment, I explored whether the restart trick would apply to my problem with the Trigger Snap Areas macro, and, it's true - A restart of BTT gets that to work every time.

I'd love to make a macro to restart BTT but, of course, once BTT has 'frozen', it won't accept any more commands.

Anyone else seen this? Any ideas for a workaround?

Thanks,

Gunnar

**Device information:**

- Type of Mac: Mac Studio M2 Max, 64GB
- macOS version: Tahoe 26.2.2
- BetterTouchTool version: 6.802

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/many-macros-functions-require-a-restart-before-working-then-stop-working-after-a-while/47905/2 "2026-09-30T19:57:30Z")

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You should never need to restart BTT, this sounds like your macro might be getting into some weird state - possibly not sending down/up keys as expected by the app? Restarting BTT might reset the state temporarily but it would probably be better to get the macro working. Maybe you can post it, then I can have a look.

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**Author:** ![gspotrecords](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/aca169/32.png) [@gspotrecords](https://community.folivora.ai/u/gspotrecords)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/many-macros-functions-require-a-restart-before-working-then-stop-working-after-a-while/47905/3 "2026-09-30T20:53:26Z")

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[GM 2016.bttpreset](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/short-url/7ISHxXNpl6MgXUI3TP1OXkEp4pd.bttpreset) (379.2 KB)

[Floating Menus.bttpreset](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/short-url/csYVkEyj9NO0QzjUiDSZj4vj3BF.bttpreset) (2.7 MB)

Hi Andreas,

Not sure how to post export it to post - judging from the file size, the GM 2016 is supposed to contain all my settings but I bet it doesn't 🙂 It looks like I've been a fan since at least 2016 (!).

At any rate, I hope the Floating Menus one will illustrate what I'm running into.

Thanks!

Gunnar Madsen