I just discovered Hazel (installed the trial today) because I read in a forum post about (with a sample workflow).
Here is the workflow I want to implement:
Find any .cbr files in the watched (and all subfolders within that), rename each matched file with the extension .rar, decompress the rar files, recompresses them as zip files, then rename each file with the cbz extension.
Here are the rules:
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if ANY of the following conditions are met for ANY OF ITS SUB-FILES OR FOLDERS
EXTENSION is CBR
Do the following to the matched file or folder
RENAME with pattern [name].rar
UNARCHIVE
ARCHIVE (as zip)
RENAME with pattern [name].cbz
It's a workflow other people are using successfully.
So I build it in my trial version, but the rules trigger neither automatically nor manually when I place .cbr files in the watched folder.
The preview rule button shows me my file list on the left, but the Rule Matched column is empty.
Clicking on the info button shows the files as having the proper 'cbr' in the 'extension' field.
The kind is archive too.
So the rule 'Extension IS cbr' does not recognize cbr files (confirmed per logs).
There seem to be other posts about issues with file extension rules having an issue in the current version.
I just don't know if I made a mistake or if I am dealing with a bug.
I would be happy to buy Hazel, but my first attempt at creating a rule has not been successful so far.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance