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Can someone point me in the right direction, I can't seem to figure this out.

I want to set up a rule to run once a week, say every Monday at 9am, and empty out the contents of a specific folder. I don't care about the age of the file, when it was created, its type, anything. I know I could easily set this up in cron, but I'd like to use Hazel. I've tried using "Date last matched" but that only removes files a week old.

Is there a way to do this in Hazel?

Thanks!

Try using the "Current time" attribute.

Mr_Noodle wrote:Try using the "Current time" attribute.

Ah. I don't know how I missed that.

Tell me, if I set a rule for 9am, and I don't wake my Mac or turn it on until 10am, will the rule run to catch up or be skipped until the following week?

Thanks again!

No, it will only match within a window of a few minutes of 9am.

Mr_Noodle wrote:No, it will only match within a window of a few minutes of 9am.

Ah, "catch up on missed events" feature request?

I'll consider it though I'd also have to take into consideration cases like if it misses multiple opportunities, does it fire multiple times in quick succession?

hmm.. i'd be inclined to say no, and leave it an option to catch up or not. maybe put a limits like "catch up if missed by XX hours" and "catchup up XX times". certainly an 'advanced option' because of the risk of causing trouble.

thanks for the assistance though!