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Hi - I have all my content on my desktop in a deep folder structure... and I have the following rules to label and OCR all PDF's that I might have... however, Hazel does not stop running once it reaches the end of the folder structure it runs in a loop and I am not sure where do I have one - these are the rules that I have - can someone please help me figure out where I went wrong?

1.Rule 1
IF all conditions: Kind IS PDF; Tags DO NOT CONTAIN "Need to OCR"; passes shell script
Do the following: Add tags "Need to OCR"; Rename with pattern name replace text "-ocr" with " "

2. Rule 2
IF all conditions: Kind IS PDF; Name DOES NOT COTAIN "-OCR" passes shell script
Do the following: Rename with pattern name -OCR extension

3. Rule 3
IF all the conditions are met:Kind is PDF; tags contain "need to OCR"
Do the following: Run applescript; rename with pattern name "-OCR" extension; remove tags "Need to OCR"

4. Rule 4
IF all the conditions are met: Kind IS Folder
Do the following: Run Rules on Folder Contents


Thanks in advance!

Is it re-running rules? If so, you should look into why those files are matching again.

Mr_Noodle wrote:Is it re-running rules? If so, you should look into why those files are matching again.

I don't know why... how would i diagnose that?

Also if I want to have a rule that removes a suffix from a file should I just use rename?

Ok I think I figured it out, I went through the log and I looked at the files that keep repeating - it happens because they fail OCR - so I added a condition to ignore these files.I manually added a different suffix to such files and if it is present these files are not matched.

now running hazel again to see if it stops in the end

so while there are no more repeat files that are being matched, Hazel continues to run in a loop.... don't know how to fix it, please advise!

Thanks!

Can you post an excerpt of the logs showing this loop?

Mr_Noodle wrote:Can you post an excerpt of the logs showing this loop?

@Mr_Noodle - I have PM'd you the updated log with debugging data - but I am not sure whether you received the message - the messages are sitting in my outbox and are not sending.... Please let me know if you receive my PM.

Thanks!

I sent you this before, please email in to support. The PM system here is not very well suited for any conversations or support. I have just downloaded your file but please email in to support if you want any feedback on it. Cite this thread so I know who it's from.