The order in which files are processed

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The order in which files are processed Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:25 pm • by gregjsmith
If I have hazel process several files in a folder that all match, it will start by alphabetical order. Is it possible to have Hazel go by file size?
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Re: The order in which files are processed Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:46 pm • by Mr_Noodle
There's no way to control that. The fact that is currently goes in alphabetical order is an implementation detail and is probably not something to count on either. Can you explain why you need this?
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Re: The order in which files are processed Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:44 pm • by gregjsmith
In one case, I have many files of various sizes in a folder that I use Hazel to process. I have multiple computers processing these files and I want the slower computers processing the small files and the faster computers processing the larger files.

I could think of other times that I want the processing to be FIFO or LIFO.
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Re: The order in which files are processed Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:44 pm • by Mr_Noodle
Sounds like very specialized logic. I think you'll have to write a script to handle that.
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Re: The order in which files are processed Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:31 pm • by gregjsmith
That's disappointing.
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