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https://www.noodlesoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2798 is pretty old and was the only reference I came across while searching for this.

There are times when I would like to quickly pause Hazel, do something, and then resume Hazel again¹

Is there a way to do that using AppleScript or some other reliable form of automation?

Before you ask: I don’t have Hazel shown in my menu bar (which is already overcrowded, even with Bartender) so that isn’t an ideal solution for me.

¹ (Generally this is to avoid Hazel asking to “uninstall” an app when all I am doing is installing an update. I don’t want to turn off Hazel’s uninstall feature entirely.)

You can stop it using the "Stop Hazel" button in the "Info" section but there's no AppleScript way to do that short of recording events.

What's the reason for this?

What's the reason for this?

I have a series of scripts which will update all my non-Mac App Store apps. Part of the process if moving the old app to the trash before moving the new app in place.

I have “App Sweep” enabled, and most of the time I want it enabled, but during the upgrade process Hazel sees the app in the trash before the script finishes putting the new one in its place, so Hazel offers to uninstall the app’s other files.

I’m trying to figure out a way around that which doesn’t involve disabling App Sweep entirely.

Is the new version downloaded and ready to be installed when you remove the old one or do you remove it beforehand? If the latter, try changing it. As long as the new version is on the same drive, swapping it out is very fast. You'll just need to have a temporary spot (on the same drive) to download it to.

Well, it's close to being ready, but it either needs to be unzipped or copied from a DMG.

I could copy it to a staging area but that would required updating all of my shell scripts… there's currently 350 of them.

Yikes, there isn't some way you can modularize at least the unpacking and moving part?

If I had realized there were going to be 350+ when I started the project, I probably would have figured out a way to give them some common code for unzipping/installing or mount-dmg-and-install, but my original idea was that each of these would be self-sufficient and work on a "clean install" Mac, so they are each independent little shell script islands.