Pause for a few sections? or conditional wait?

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Pause for a few sections? or conditional wait? Sat Jul 05, 2014 6:22 pm • by Zuriel
So i have a rule that when I download a .nzb it opens it up and starts my download. I also have a rule that when a file is downloaded to my desktop it sorts it into a folder.

The problem is that these two rules both at the same time.

Is there a way to pause a rule for 10 seconds, or a few seconds? that way I can have my sorting rule wait a certain time for a file to be on the desktop, then it will process it.

since the desktop is a holding pen for alot of stuff, I use it alot. (import to itunes, nzb download, etc)

Would this be something found inside a script? like a shell script etc, or is this built in, or is there any other suggestions.

Thanks
Zuriel
 
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First off, please do not post questions to the Tips forum. The sticky post at the top there tells you not to do this.

As for your question, try adding a "date added is not in the last X minutes" condition to delay processing for a new file.
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