Can't figure out how to make Hazel action "stop."

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I'm trying to figure out how to apply a Hazel action to a folder that gets created once a week and then deleted later. What I need to do is run an Automator workflow to rename the contents of the folder to today's date and then convert one of those copies to a JPG.

The Hazel rule looks like this:

If _Date Created_ is _Today_

then

Run Automator Workflow _convert to JPG_

I could do this easily with Permute, but I don't want to open another app, and I want it to happen behind the scenes.

So I guess I want to know how I make that action run once and then not again so that I don't end up with an unending loop for converted JPGs!

Thanks for anyone's help.
luckie_reubs
 
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Is this folder created in the same location? You can have Hazel monitor the folder where that folder will be created. You can then create a rule to match that folder and tell it to "Run rules on folder contents". The other rules can then deal with renaming the files.
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