Organizing Rules / Resetting the List of recent Folders

Hi, I am running several dozens of rules on a folder to sort files into different subdirectories. Since the rules change frequently, I need to edit them or add new ones on a regular basis. Is there any way to sort the list of rules for a folder alphabetically?

Something else I ran into is the list of recent folders you get when you want to specify the destination for moving a file for example. I used this action a lot and now this list grew enormous and scrolling down to ‘Other…’ takes quite long. Is there a way to reset this list to its default?

Polaris

The ordering of the rules affects the logic so you can't sort them.

My question, though, is whether you can use patterns to reduce the number of rules. Many times when I see people with a bunch of rules that are similar is that they aren't taking advantage of patterns. I suggest reading the help on "match patterns" and see if you could use that to your advantage.

Thank you for the fast reply.

I completely forgot about that changing the displayed order of the rules would change the behaviour of the rules, too. Never mind.

Switching to pattern matching completely would be great, but I have not found a way to accomplish what I want with it yet.

I use hazel to monitor a folder where all my exported recordings from EyeTV end up. Using the name of the recording, I can get the name of the show, the episode number and the episode title. Unfortunately EyeTV does not include the season in the title of exported videos.

So while I can use the tokens I got from the filenames to sort TV shows in the right subdirectory and rename them to almost a format that Plex can parse to fetch metadata, I am still missing the season, which I have to edit manually.

Unless there is a way to tell Hazel to move a file into a folder by using something like a finder colour label (I could just set the active season’s folder Label to say red) or Hazel has the option to move a file to the folder which was created most recently, I see no way to get the sorting done with a few general rules.

If anybody could point me to a better solution, I would be grateful.

Pol

Search the tips forums. I seem to remember some program out there that could look up season information.

I'll have a look at it. Thanks for the tip.