Tagging based on filename

[thebookbloke]

Hi

Here's a couple of my file names:

Cricks, Jane - 1881 Census Schedule.jpg

Allin, Francis - 1835 Baptism Register.png

I might want the file to carry three tags: the surname (Cricks or Allin), the type of document (Census or Baptism), and the date (1881 or 1835).

Can I use Hazel to extract strings from the filename and use them as Finder tags? It'd be great if I could because I have thousands of these files and will accumulate more pretty regularly.

Cheers

Mick

[Mr_Noodle]

Check out "match patterns" (search for them in the help). You can create custom attributes to grab the text you want. Then, in the "Add tags" action, you can create a dynamic tag to insert those back in.

[thebookbloke]

Thanks. That seems to be the way forward. Have had success with most files. The exceptions have had names with an inconsistent file name structure. I can fix that.

Great stuff.