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I have made a folder that I can toss files and folders into and it sorts them into one of four subfolders:

1, Movies
2, TV Shows
3, Other Videos
4, anything else (which SHOULD be empty because the folder with these rules is meant to only process videos)

I do this for the videos I use in Plex... My movies are all in folders that have their name and release year -- like Star Wars (1977). So the first rule looks for any folder which follows the pattern:

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Full Name matches ...(...)

Matches are put into a subfolder called Movies.

My TV Shows all have filenames ending with S##E## -- their season and episode numbers. I didn't remember if they had spaces between the S## and the E## -- so I made the next rule look for:

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Name matches ...S123...E123

Matches are put into a subfolder called TV Shows.

Then I look for any file where the Kind is Movie and put it into the Other Videos subfolder...

Then -- to toss anything else into the "anything else" subfolder -- I look for anything where the Kind is NOT Folder (to get files)... OR anything which has ALL of these conditions:

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Kind is Folder
Name is not Movies
Name is not TV
Name is not Other Videos
Name is not the rest

As you see -- I named my "anything else" folder "the rest."

Anyway -- I have tested this extensively and it works fine. I did have to do one thing (to get around what I consider a bug)... When the rules processed the move D.O.A. (1949), it didn't match my original rule:

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Name matches ...(...)

It didn't match that rule because it considered the Name to be D... It considered the Extension to be O.A. (1949). That's why I used Full Name for that rule -- because that looks at Name + Extension. I am just lucky I have no TV Shows with periods in their names! (But if I did have some, I'd just use Full Name and change the patterns to include the extensions my videos use... ...but hopefully Mr. Noodle will consider this to be a bug, too, and squash it.)

Anyway -- I hope this helps someone somehow!

-Dave

I'm having a problem with this.

I typically have TV shows named as per tvshow.title.S01E04.various.other.misc.text.mkv

Ideally I want Hazel to turn that into:

tvshow title S01E04.mkv

For the 'selection' rule I'm trying: Name matches (...)s(123)(...)e(123)(...) which seems to work. The second part of the operation would be to get rid of the characters to the right of the e(123). Is this even possible?

You need to use custom attributes to save the parts of the name and then reuse those attributes in a renaming pattern. Search for "match patterns" in the manual.

Quite correct I did a lot of reading of the manual this morning and manages to sort it all out!