After many years of usage of Hazel my rules will not run without me “touching” the file one way or another. Since I am sure this is a user problem I re-created my rules about 5-6 month ago but the problem will not go away.
I have a traditional workflow: scan paper invoices with Scansnap -> Scansnap OCR and ,move the file to my ‘action folder’ -> hazel views the file and re-names it according to my desire -> I manually process the file (pay the bill) then change the tag of the file to ‘green’ and it is moved to the right subfolder for long term storage.
The problem I have is that the first step, after the file is moved to the action folder, is that the renaming doesn’t start before I ’touch’ the file, for example by opening it in preview. As you can see in my screen shots below the actual OCR text doesn’t match before I open the file in the native Preview app. Once opened the ORC text matches and the rule executes!
I cannot understand what I do wrong.
The full story:
1. Step: Scansnap moved the file to the action folder:
For reference: the file above the marked file have been processed by the same rule with the steps I describe below.
2. Hazel's log view on it:
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2020-08-25 18:20:50.769 hazelworker[7263] Done processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 18:21:01.359 hazelworker[7271] Running worker (v4.4.5) for folder with identifier: 16777220-8635835150.
2020-08-25 18:21:01.361 hazelworker[7271] ###main load address: 0x10f25b000
2020-08-25 18:21:01.361 hazelworker[7271] ###Noodle load address: 0x10f378000
2020-08-25 18:21:01.361 hazelworker[7271] ###CK load address: 0x10f33d000
2020-08-25 18:21:01.411 hazelworker[7271] Processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 18:21:03.633 hazelworker[7271] Done processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 18:21:15.493 hazelworker[7294] Running worker (v4.4.5) for folder with identifier: 16777220-8635835150.
2020-08-25 18:21:15.495 hazelworker[7294] ###main load address: 0x109827000
2020-08-25 18:21:15.495 hazelworker[7294] ###Noodle load address: 0x109947000
2020-08-25 18:21:15.495 hazelworker[7294] ###CK load address: 0x109909000
2020-08-25 18:21:15.545 hazelworker[7294] Processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 18:21:17.765 hazelworker[7294] Done processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 18:21:18.793 hazelworker[7307] Running worker (v4.4.5) for folder with identifier: 16777220-8635835150.
2020-08-25 18:21:18.796 hazelworker[7307] ###main load address: 0x10e534000
2020-08-25 18:21:18.796 hazelworker[7307] ###Noodle load address: 0x10e659000
2020-08-25 18:21:18.796 hazelworker[7307] ###CK load address: 0x10e61b000
2020-08-25 18:21:18.850 hazelworker[7307] Processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 18:21:20.882 hazelworker[7307] Done processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 18:21:32.535 hazelworker[7323] Running worker (v4.4.5) for folder with identifier: 16777220-8635835150.
2020-08-25 18:21:32.537 hazelworker[7323] ###main load address: 0x10ae01000
2020-08-25 18:21:32.537 hazelworker[7323] ###Noodle load address: 0x10af20000
2020-08-25 18:21:32.537 hazelworker[7323] ###CK load address: 0x10aee4000
2020-08-25 18:21:32.583 hazelworker[7323] Processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 18:21:34.801 hazelworker[7323] Done processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 18:21:43.486 hazelworker[7334] Running worker (v4.4.5) for folder with identifier: 16777220-8635835150.
2020-08-25 18:21:43.488 hazelworker[7334] ###main load address: 0x105c7d000
2020-08-25 18:21:43.488 hazelworker[7334] ###Noodle load address: 0x105d99000
3. Hazel’s view status window view of the file:
4. The Hazel’s preview view on the file - with the actual rule and renaming. Please observe that it is the Content Contain that doesn't match:
5. I open the file in the native macOS Catalina Preview app
6. Voila, the file is now renamed:
7. My rule in Hazel now agrees with that the file should be renamed, and the OCR rule / Content Contain now match (but of course then my other rule, to stop the rule from being executed again, kicks in):
8. And this is what the log think of it:
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2020-08-25 18:54:43.332 hazelworker[9180] Done processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 19:01:16.325 hazelworker[9600] Running worker (v4.4.5) for folder with identifier: 16777220-8635835150.
2020-08-25 19:01:16.327 hazelworker[9600] ###main load address: 0x106733000
2020-08-25 19:01:16.327 hazelworker[9600] ###Noodle load address: 0x10684e000
2020-08-25 19:01:16.327 hazelworker[9600] ###CK load address: 0x106817000
2020-08-25 19:01:16.396 hazelworker[9600] Processing folder action - MyDrp
2020-08-25 19:01:18.716 hazelworker[9600] 2020-08-25-18-21-15.pdf: Rule Kjell&Co kvitto -> rename, yellow, acab matched.
2020-08-25 19:01:18.720 hazelworker[9600] [File Event] File renamed: /Users/micke/MikeyMouse/action - MyDrp/2020-08-25-18-21-15.pdf renamed to /Users/micke/MikeyMouse/action - MyDrp/2020-08-19 - kvitto kjell o co.pdf.
2020-08-25 19:01:21.946 hazelworker[9600] Done processing folder action - MyDrp
I obviously do something wrong here but don’t understand what. Any help is highly appreciated.
Thank you
Mike