Hazel moves images and videos when "is NOT" is selected
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 9:53 amHi there,
I currently have quite a number (thousands) of folders containing images/videos and other files on an external hard drive. I normally use this hard drive with Windows but it is readable/writeable on a Mac so I wanted to use Hazel to clean it up.
My objective currently is to try and copy the "other files" and NOT the images and videos. The images (all jpeg) and videos (all mp4) are named after numbers (dates), while the other files are named with letters. I've tried setting rules for...
If all the following conditions are met:
Kind is not Image
Kind is not Movie
Name does NOT contain (numbers 1-9... I made 9 rules for this)
And the result is the entire folder just gets copied, media files and all, when I have instructed Hazel to avoid any media files to begin with.
I've had success moving images and videos on my Mac to external hard drives in the past (i.e. the opposite of what I'm trying to achieve currently), but my rules for this specific folder don't seem to be working this time.
Any suggestions?
I currently have quite a number (thousands) of folders containing images/videos and other files on an external hard drive. I normally use this hard drive with Windows but it is readable/writeable on a Mac so I wanted to use Hazel to clean it up.
My objective currently is to try and copy the "other files" and NOT the images and videos. The images (all jpeg) and videos (all mp4) are named after numbers (dates), while the other files are named with letters. I've tried setting rules for...
If all the following conditions are met:
Kind is not Image
Kind is not Movie
Name does NOT contain (numbers 1-9... I made 9 rules for this)
And the result is the entire folder just gets copied, media files and all, when I have instructed Hazel to avoid any media files to begin with.
I've had success moving images and videos on my Mac to external hard drives in the past (i.e. the opposite of what I'm trying to achieve currently), but my rules for this specific folder don't seem to be working this time.
Any suggestions?