Poor Man's 'Download Finished' (aka SDDD)

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Poor Man's 'Download Finished' (aka SDDD) Wed May 08, 2013 12:09 am • by leoofborg
Update: Posted the rule to GitHub (to learn GH) as "Super Dumb Download Done"

https://github.com/leoofborg/SDDD/blob/master/README.md

Hello Folks... first time here, been using Hazel for awhile, you be the judge how useful this is. After kind of missing GrowlSafari, which would Growl when a file download would finish (say, a big file, like a Combo Update), I decided to see if I could abuse Hazel's after reading the post about 'working on a file when it exists':

http://www.noodlesoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1892&p=7851&hilit=downloads#p7851

So what I did was this rule on the Downloads folder:

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If ALL of the following FILE OR FOLDER BEING MATCHED:

* DATE LAST MATCHED is BLANK
* DATE ADDED is NOT BLANK
* KIND is not FOLDER (just to be safe, or not notify on unarchived folders)

Do the following actions:

* DISPLAY GROWL NOTIFICATION with pattern ("DING:" FILE "is here at" TIME)
* (anything else)

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Some things:

1/ I put this at the end of all my other actions that 'fall through' to this one. It still works. "KIND is not FOLDER" also keeps it from firing when I unzip Apps too (as they are bundles = folders).

2/ It seems to work okay with Chrome & Safari. Not so much with Firefox, but there's a FF Extension that does work well called "Growl GNTP" that does work with Firefox 20.x

3/ Instead of using Notification Center on Mountain Lion I have Growl piping to NC.. reason? Because I also use Prowl to send Growl statuses to my iPhone. Start a large download (like a Combo Update), then get a DING when I'm out having a coffee at Starbucks.

Then I can either remote in to the machine and start a task or head home.

The only question I have is... does anyone have a more elegant way of doing this?
leoofborg
 
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