Convert u/l iPhone photos from HEIC to jpg/png automatically

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Perhaps I'm brute forcing something that has an easier solution, but I don't like my uploaded (airdropped) iPhone photos to be in HEIC format on my Mac. So I have a Downloads folder rule in Hazel that runs the following three scripts for every uploaded file:

/opt/homebrew/bin/convert $1 $1.png

VAR=$1
/opt/homebrew/bin/rename s/HEIC\.// $VAR.png

/bin/rm $1

[I guess could all be one script - can't remember why I split it into three separate scripts.]

Now to make all that work, you have to previously have installed 'brew' and then install 'imagemagik'. But this works like a charm and is very reliable.
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