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I'm trying to clean up the name of downloaded folders...
example "foldername (2013) (otherstuff)"

My rule is trying to remove everything from the first "(" through to the end of the name

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If all of the following conditions are met for the file or folder being matched
     kind is Folder
     Full name matches •Name ('letters & digits token'
          Where •Name is (anything numbers)
Do the following
     Rename with pattern •Name

But it doesn't seem to identify the folder to run the rule on it.

That pattern doesn't seem to match. In particular, it doesn't account for the end parentheses. If you don't care about anything after the opening paren, try something like "•name (..." where ... is the anything token.

Yeah, that was kinda' obvious. Guess I was overthinking it.

Changed, and it does make more sense. But still not working. The preview shows that the only rule being applied to a test folder is the Folder content rule, which I'll confess always trips me up.

My folder content rule works though...

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If all of the following conditions are met for the file or folder being matched
      Name is not tags
      Kind is Folder
Do the following to the matched files or folder:
      Run rules on folder contents

My rename rule looks like this now...

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If all of the following conditions are met for the file or folder being matched
     kind is Folder
     Full name matches •Name (...
          Where •Name is (anything)
Do the following
     Rename with pattern •Name

Both rules match against folders. I'm guessing it's matching the first rule and not the second. You should look into re-ordering the rules in this case.

And that was the trick. Sigh. Its the obvious stuff sometimes.

Thanks!