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Hello.
I am not entirely clear what I need to do to obtain the following objective. I have looked around and fastened on https://www.noodlesoft.com/manual/hazel ... ubfolders/ but I am still unsure.

I have a series of folders that appear under a master directory that is monitored by Hazel (call it "monitor")

I have a current script/action (s) that does various processing and one of the actions is to delete the empty sub-directory (call it "sub1" for the example). That works. It has an "all" condition of kind=folder and sub-folder count is 0 (and if a match move to trash).

A change in a program creates a sub-directory within this existing nest, e.g. "/monitor/sub1/sub-directory."

The processing of the other actions (moving files) works.

Do I just need to change the sub-folder/count to 1 (?) to delete both /monitor/sub1 AND /monitor/sub1/sub-directory or do I need to do something else?

I am a bit concerned about doing a trial-and-error approach in the blind in case I kill data that is being added by other processes in the background. I couldn't find a separate reference. This viewtopic.php?f=4&t=470 suggests changing it to a "1" may work, but I'd rather get the collective expertise of someone more qualified than me to be sure.

Thank you in advance for any guidance.

Instead of going off of count, you might want to use size instead. Also, it might be better to do this on a test folder so you can get things working as expected before using it on your real files.

Mr_Noodle wrote:Instead of going off of count, you might want to use size instead. Also, it might be better to do this on a test folder so you can get things working as expected before using it on your real files.

Thank you. For some reason I never saw (or reacted to) the size function before! That did the job nicely.