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I have a flow that I use probably twice monthly that does mostly clicking buttons and links on webpages. What's happening is the flow terminates and the error is "button-press failed," but the button press didn't actually fail; the webpage performs the action of clicking the button, so I can tell that PAD clicked it, but I guess something is wrong that it gets these false negatives repeatedly. Today is the first time this has started failing like this. The most interesting thing to me is that it's a different instruction that fails to press a button each time, so I'm wondering if there's some issue with an Edge update, a Windows update, or a PAD update that's making some reading error that only happens sometimes.

I've tried changing the instruction to clicking a webpage link instead of clicking a webpage button. I've tried adding and repairing fallback images, but I don't think that's the problem since it's not actually failing to find the button/link. I deleted every UI element in the whole flow and added them back in individually. I ran the troubleshooter for installation issues. I ran the troubleshooter for UI/web automation issues, and it said that the web extension is not installed, but it was installed and I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the extension and restarting the PC but that didn't fix the troubleshooter message, and it also said that the WebDriver version is incorrect, but I have the interaction method set to use the extension. I checked that Edge is up to date. The next thing I might try (probably not today) is to retool the whole flow to work in Chrome instead and see if that functions better. The whole flow is only 161 instructions, so it probably won't be that bad. I'm just annoyed that this thing saves me like 6 hours of work a month and I've spent like 3 hours getting fake errors and not figuring out how to fix them.

Windows 11 Pro 25H2 26200.8037 - Edge 146.0.3856.62 - PAD 2.65.145.26040

Is this a known problem? What else should I try? Thanks in advance.

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