Synced rule with different destination by device?

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Is it possible to have a synced rule (for the ~/Downloads folder) that sends a particular file type from Downloads to another folder, but where that folder destination depends on the device?

On my Mac Mini (I'll call it device A), the destination is /Volumes/external_drive/folder; on my laptop (device B), the destination is ~/Movies/folder.

I did try using an alias for the destination, hoping for that to be the destination used by the syncing rule (therefore it could be the same "destination" in the rule, but the alias would be device-specific), but that only opens up to the actual location when selecting it as the destination in the rule edit screen, so I can't seem to actually specify the alias as the location to which Hazel should move the file.
kruczynski
 
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Unfortunately, no. A bit roundabout, but you could have it move it to a folder with the same path on both machines, then on each machine, have a rule for that folder moving it to the final location.
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