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Hi - I've set up a rule to copy iCloud photo stream images to a target directory, so that Adobe Lightroom can import them. My rules are:

Source folder = ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/sub (which contains a number of subfolders each containing an iCloud Photostream image)
Kind is Folder
Run rules on folder contents
Copy to folder <my target directory> with the options if file exists, do not copy the file and do not copy if duplicate.
Copy folder structure is *not* selected

When this runs, the subfolders are copied as well as the image files inside them. I want to copy just the image files over to the target directory, not the subfolders that they're contained in.

Is there a way to do this in Hazel?
Thanks!

Your rule is set up to match folders. Read the sticky article on going into subfolders. As described there, you will want to have a separate rule to match the folders (to tell Hazel to go into them) and the files themselves.

Thanks very much - the stickied article on subfolders was really useful. I now have 2 rules for the iCloud Photostream folder:

1) Find Photostream Folder:
If Kind is Folder then
Run rules on folder contents

2) Copy Photostream Image:
If Kind is Image and
Subfolder Depth is greater than 0
Copy to folder (my backup folder) with options if file exists do not copy the file and do not copy if duplicate

I didn't realize that one could create multiple rules that worked together - I thought all the testing logic and actions had to be in a single rule.