Animation works just half/third of the time /inconsistently

Hey!

I have hooked up a small non-looping animation hooked up to saving process [you know, those fancy little animations in the corner]:
1. - when the Saving process starts I am enabling the
Animator component
and
Timed Event component, which disables said Animator component after 2 seconds
2. - the 1 second animation plays;
3. - Animator component gets disabled after 2 seconds.

Thing is, enabling Animator only works half the time at best [even by manually triggering it within editor].
What would be the reason animation won't play now and again?

Olafs