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This is most likely an edge case, but say I have thousands of images in raw format, some with metadata files structured like so:

photo1.nef
photo1.xmp
photo2.nef
photo3.nef
photo3.xmp

I want to run a rule with multiple conditions, one being the *absence* of the .xmp metadata file. Is there a good way within the Hazel rule set to check this? Thanks for your help and for an awesome app!

You can use a nested condition (check the help on that). Using that, you can do something like:

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If (all) are met
    Name matches (•file name)
    Extension is nef
    If (none) are met for (all files in the same folder)
        If (all) are met for the current file
            Extension is xmp
            Name matches (•file name)


Where (•file name) is a custom attribute matching "anything" (see "match patterns" in the help). That should match a nef file with no corresponding xmp. I believe the double-nested conditions is necessary because you are testing for the absence of such a file.

Awesome! I’ll give this a try. Thank you for the help!