How do I stop Hazel mid folder progress?

I am running into an issue where I can't seem to get Hazel to stop processing a folder after it has started. I have a long process (encoding about 100+ files in a folder) and I would like to tweak the processing script that I have running. I tried turning Hazel off from the menu, but it looks like it's still processing the rest of the files in the folder.

Restarting the computer does work, but I was hoping for something a little simpler. I know that there are 2 processes in Activity Monitor, and I read in another post that Hazel Helper isn't the one that should be killed. Is it ok to kill the other? Will that even stop the process? Or should I just stick with doing a restart?

Thanks!

Last edited by a_freyer on Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It seems like your 'processing script' is what you're having difficulty stopping. Hazel stops processing immediately when it is paused, but it does not force quit scripts. [EDIT - see Mr_Noodle's reply below]

First, I'd suggest not processing 100s of files when you're testing. Just process a few files at a time in a demo folder. This is really what you should be doing.

If for some reason you MUST beta test a script on 100s of files, then I'd suggest removing the script and testing independent of Hazel. After all, if you're using a script then Hazel is just a trigger.

If you really need to, you can force quit the hazelworker process (that's the process that does the actual rule processing). And, as a_freyer said, it's best to test is on a smaller batch of files. Also, I'd pause the rules for that folder and use the preview feature. Many people skip that not realizing that their files are matching the wrong rules. After you are done tweaking the rules, you can resume processing on that folder.

Got it, I'll keep that in mind if I need to break the process again. It's one of those things where I haven't caught all the special cases yet for some different file types, and when I do come across one, I'd like to kill the processing until I can get it fixed.

I didn't realize that you could right click on a folder rule and pause just that one, that's pretty awesome.