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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.

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.