Hazel Stops Processing New Files Until I Restart It

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Hi everyone,

I've been running into a strange issue with Hazel over the past few days. After my Mac has been running for several hours, Hazel seems to stop processing newly added files in one of my monitored folders. Existing rules work perfectly after a restart, but eventually the problem comes back.

The folder is stored locally (not on a network drive), and the rules are fairly simple—they just rename files and move them into subfolders based on file type. I've already tried rebuilding the folder rules, disabling and re-enabling monitoring, and restarting Finder, but the only temporary fix is restarting Hazel or rebooting the Mac.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is there a way to diagnose whether Hazel is losing track of file system events or if there's a log I should check?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
johnnybishop
 
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Go through the troubleshooting guide here: https://www.noodlesoft.com/kb/hazel-tro ... ing-guide/

Report back with the output from each of the tests.
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