Sync Rules But Disable Rules on One Mac

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Sync Rules But Disable Rules on One Mac Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:48 am • by NaOH
I've got a desktop and a laptop which have rules synced between them. The desktop gets the bulk of my Mac usage. Am I missing a method whereby the rules can be synced between the Macs but also be disabled on one Mac (the laptop in this case)?

If it helps, I'll explain the situation in more detail. A folder is monitored by Hazel, and when any files are added to that folder Hazel runs a rule on each file which hands off the file to Keyboard Maestro for generating emails with the file. This typically happens once a week, as the files are customer invoices. All fine up to here. But for those rare times I use the laptop, the Hazel rules then re-run on that folder of invoices on the laptop and thus emails are created in Mail on the laptop.

So I then spend time deleting draft emails which are open in Mail. There's no harm from this—it's not like emails are being re-sent—but it's something I'm hoping to avoid having to do each time I use the secondary Mac.
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Re: Sync Rules But Disable Rules on One Mac Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:28 am • by Mr_Noodle
It's a bad idea to have two instances of Hazel processing the same group of files (I'm assuming the files are synced). It's better to only have one machine do it since the results will be synced across machines anyways.
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Re: Sync Rules But Disable Rules on One Mac Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:26 pm • by NaOH
Doesn't disabling rules on one Mac disable them on another when syncing is enabled? If I can disable them on one Mac without affecting the other, great. But it would be problematic for me to not have the rules available to me on both Macs.
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Re: Sync Rules But Disable Rules on One Mac Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:19 pm • by Mr_Noodle
A rule's active/inactive state is independent on each machine, so yes, you can disable rules on each machine as you see fit but be aware of the issues should rules be active on both ends.
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Re: Sync Rules But Disable Rules on One Mac Thu Mar 29, 2018 6:33 pm • by NaOH
A rule's active/inactive state is independent on each machine....


Great. Thank you.
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