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Hi all!
I' have read the manual and also the forum to look for a solution to my need, which is pretty simple:

I have a Folder structure where every folder starts with "XX. Name", like 01. Admin; 02. Work; 03. Personal and every subfolder inside follows the same naming structure.

I did a test in my Downloads folder to use the match patterns feature and found out that it works perfect with files but not with folders. I tried adding the condition "kind is folder" but that didn't work either. I also tried taking out the extension pattern but nothing happened.

I am using also the "Go into subfolders" rule

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you very much for your help.

Not sure if this is your issue, but not that anything after a dot is considered the file's extension. Make sure you match against "Full name" in that case.

Otherwise, can you post your rules?

Mr_Noodle wrote:Not sure if this is your issue, but not that anything after a dot is considered the file's extension. Make sure you match against "Full name" in that case.

Otherwise, can you post your rules?

Hi Mr_Noodle,
Thank you very much for your reply. I didn't realize that what you mention, that everything after a dot can be considered an extension.

I think I can't use "full name" because behind that "XX." there can be anything (months, customer names, content type, etc.)

Currently my rule looks like this:

If all conditions are met:
Name starts with 01.
Kind is folder

Do the following to the matched file or folder
Rename with pattern name (and under name I chose Replace "01. with 01 ")

That shouldn't matter. Trying to match the dot with Name won't work though.

Mr_Noodle wrote:That shouldn't matter. Trying to match the dot with Name won't work though.

Thanks again for your reply.

I have tried wit Automator but haven't been able to make it work. Will keep on trying.

Thanks!

I'm still not sure why "Full name starts with XX." won't work. The whole point of "starts with" is that it doesn't care what happens after that text.