Compare Duplicate Files & Delete First Revision

[acuriouslad]

The first part I have no problem with as Hazel can compare byte-by-byte and determine if the files are the same and delete duplicates through the check box in the preference pane.

The problem comes when I know one revision is older/smaller/incomplete in some way - the file checking that Hazel does is then a problem because they ARE different. This makes Hazel duplicate the existing file by append "-1" to the name of the file.
I understand this and acknowledge this is what happens because they are fundamentally different, however what I want to achieve is that the newer version is kept and the older version is trashed.

Say I have two files "Home.pdf" and "Home-1.pdf" I want to keep the second revision "Home-1.pdf" and trash "Home.pdf".


Following this I'd like to rename the file to delete the "-1" from the end of the name.

How would I go about doing this?

[Mr_Noodle]

How is the "-1" file being created? Is it from Hazel moving the file there and seeing the existing file? If so, you can set the move operation to always overwrite the existing one.