Error notifications matching file types

I have a recent issue with some rules that attempt to match file types. Specifically, I am receiving error notifications about rules not matching *other* file types.

Example:

- I have a rule which will move PDFs from my Downloads folder if they were not added "today".
- I receive the notification "Error during rule evaluation. Received error while trying to evaluate rule 'PDFs - Move to Inbox after today' on file xxx.dmg"

Note the error is attempting to match the PDF rule to a DMG. Rather than receive an error notification, shouldn't the rule just bypass the non-PDF file without any issue?

The rule in this example is...

If all conditions are met:

1. Kind - is - PDF
2. Date last modified - is not - Today

Do:

Move - to folder - Inbox

...

I am also receiving this same error notification for:

- DMG rule failing to match PKG
- DMG rule failing to match ICS
- DMG rule failing to match a folder
- PDF rule failing to match DMG

The only other file-type rule I have is Music, which appears to match fine - though I may have missed a similar error notification. The above are only my recent ones.

Perhaps I am missing something easy, but any help or guidance is much appreciated!

Thanks!

Check the logs ("Info"->"View Log") and search for the error in question. Post it here or email it in and I'll be better able to tell what's going on.

Thanks for the fast reply. The error log is below. I note several similar errors, where the common note is "could not retrieve metadata... "

Of course, I don't really know what I'm looking for, so I'll leave that to you! :-)

[side note: out of a small privacy concern, I changed the user directory to "name". That's the only edit I made here.]

2015-08-09 21:47:42.550 hazelworker[632] [Error] Error during rule evaluation: Received error while trying to evaluate rule PDFs - Move to Inbox after today on file Popcorn-Time-0.3.8-2-Mac.dmg
2015-08-09 21:47:42.550 hazelworker[632] Error while matching rule PDFs - Move to Inbox after today against file /Users/name/Downloads/Popcorn-Time-0.3.8-2-Mac.dmg: Could not retrieve metadata for file: /Users/name/Downloads/Popcorn-Time-0.3.8-2-Mac.dmg
2015-08-09 21:47:42.550 hazelworker[632] ###main load address: 0x107abf000
2015-08-09 21:47:42.550 hazelworker[632] ###Noodle load address: 0x107bca000
2015-08-09 21:47:42.550 hazelworker[632] ###CK load address: 0x107b92000
2015-08-09 21:47:42.550 hazelworker[632] (
0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff941ce03c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8dbb776e objc_exception_throw + 43
2 hazelworker 0x0000000107af1903 hazelworker + 207107
3 hazelworker 0x0000000107aed655 hazelworker + 190037
4 hazelworker 0x0000000107b052b6 hazelworker + 287414
5 Foundation 0x00007fff92f70a7e -[NSPredicateOperator performOperationUsingObject:andObject:] + 285
6 Foundation 0x00007fff92f7081d -[NSComparisonPredicate evaluateWithObject:substitutionVariables:] + 313
7 hazelworker 0x0000000107b2718d hazelworker + 426381
8 hazelworker 0x0000000107b27282 hazelworker + 426626
9 hazelworker 0x0000000107b25e60 hazelworker + 421472
10 hazelworker 0x0000000107b30a9e hazelworker + 465566
11 hazelworker 0x0000000107b243cb hazelworker + 414667
12 hazelworker 0x0000000107af8723 hazelworker + 235299
13 hazelworker 0x0000000107ac6734 hazelworker + 30516
14 hazelworker 0x0000000107ac80e3 hazelworker + 37091
15 hazelworker 0x0000000107ac9e2d hazelworker + 44589
16 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff948b25c9 start + 1
)

That means that Spotlight hasn't indexed those files for whatever reason. Google around on how to re-index your files as you'll need to fix that for Hazel to work properly.

Got it. Thanks!