Move, copy and archive the copied files

[carycrusiau]

Hi there,

I bought Hazel yesterday and, so, I'm pretty new to it. Here's what I try to do without success: I want to drop Adobe Illustrator (.ai) files in a folder, move these files in an sub-folder with the name 'AIs', copy the same files in another folder with the name 'ZIPs' and, then, archive each files in the 'ZIPs' folder individually.



How to do that?

TIA

[Mr_Noodle]

I think it should be straightforward. Use a sequence of Sort into subfolder, Copy, Archive. I suggest giving it a try and post back here if you run into specific problems.

[carycrusiau]

Thanks! It works. In fact, I thought the 'Archive' action at the end would archive all the files and not only the copied ones

[carycrusiau]

Another question.

Here is my current rule:



All the actions work fine except the second ('Open'). For now, I have 10 files but only a few (4 or 5) of them are correctly opened by the ‘Default Application’. What's wrong?

TIA

[Mr_Noodle]

It might be that the application is too slow opening the files. You can try adding a delay by using a shellscript:

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    sleep 5


Where "5" is the number of seconds to pause.

[carycrusiau]

Thanks! Will give this a try…