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I use Hazel to try to wrangle my (almost) automated video downloads area on my HTPC in attempt at keeping things relatively organized. Right now Hazel is hitting on files (as viewed in the rule preview), but not necessarily performing actions.. And sometimes even performing 'half actions' -- like adding a comment to a filename, but not changing the finder label color, even though it's set-up to.

Things were working fairly smoothly before... not sure what happened. I looked at the debug log (debug logging enabled) and it looks to me like it gets stuck on a file for some reason, and just stops doing things. I tried to re-run rules after the last error (Bill Maher) and it appears to not be doing anything --no more log entries.

Note: This is a hackintosh system... @ 10.6.7 ---but things have been running smoothly (including Hazel) for a long time now.. I did to a quick permissions repair in case there were potential problems there.

Here's my log: http://pastebin.com/VJYiyBLK


As a side note.. is there a way to export my current config for easy troubleshooting, or am I gonna have to make a bunch of screenshots?


Thanks for any help you can offer

If you are a licensed user, you can use the export function located in the gear/cog menu. If you do that, I advise you email me instead of posting it here (click on the "Contact Support" link in the "Info" tab).

Looking at the log, it seems like the process just disappears when trying to do certain things. Check your Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and look for any files with hazelfolderwatch in the name. Email those to me as well.

Also, I'm seeing this message also: /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/tvnamer-2.1-py2.6.egg/tvnamer/main.py:235: UserWarning: The move_files feature is still under development. Be very careful with it.

You may want to run some test where you don't run an external script to make sure the script itself isn't bombing.

Thanks-

Just did an 'export all' and sent you the file. I just looked at the hazel log and can confirm that it hasn't added anything to the log since yesterday.

Is there a way to restart 'hazelfolderwatch'? I checked ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and there is nothing there concerning Hazel.

I have a rule that watches folders inside of my downloads folder to see if they've grown in size in the last 1 minute. If they haven't hazel sets a color label (green) and then runs rules on the contents. I've got a folder in there that qualifies.. and nothing is happening..

Thanks for helping out!

One thing right off the bat is that you should set it for a longer period than 1 minute. With the current engine, it's probably better to use a time period of 5 minutes or more. The reason is that for various reasons, Hazel may not run within a minute so even if the preview shows it to be true now, by the time Hazel runs, the window may have passed.

I say give that a shot first and report back.