[Solved] Rename file - rule not repeating [new user]

Last edited by phonek on Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:56 pm, edited 4 times in total.

New user, with an issue...

I have a PDF file named after today's date, with the file extension showing:
2025-01-21.pdf

How do I get Hazel to automatically change this to the new day's date every day, keeping the extension – i.e.:
2025-01-22.pdf etc.

The problem is that currently my rule doesn't seem to work automatically at midnight when the date changes, but only when I manually hit the Run Rules Now button in Hazel – screenshot of rule:

Note: "date w/dashes' and 'current date' are both set under Edit Attribute to style "1999-12-31":

Thanks in advance.

The way you have the rule set up, the rule will only fire once. You need to give it a condition to tell it to update.

You could add a condition like "• date w/dashes" is before today which would match anytime the filename lags behind.

Added, like this:

Now seems to work so far, so marked as Solved.

Not sure if this is the best way of doing such a file rename, but took some fiddling to get a rule with regards to the extension being kept and not removed.

Anyway, will post again if fails and need more help. Thanks again.

As far as the extension goes, when you select the Rename action, the extension attribute is there by default. I recommend not deleting that unless you intend to change or remove the extension.