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I am fighting with patterns.

At work, I get lots of .dmg files.

Their names are kind of :

Blablaxvz__ABC_defgh.net.dmg

In which:

Blablaxvz

Is the specific part of each file name

and…

__ABC_defgh.net

is the part never modified. Like a signature for all the files.

Il would like to delete…

__ABC_defgh.net

and thus the new resulting file name would be:

Blablaxvz.dmg

Thanks to help me.

In your pattern, you would want to create a custom text attribute to match the first part (the part of the name you want to keep). I'm guessing it would be everything up to the first underscore. You can then probably use an "anything" part for everything after the underscore since you don't care about it. In the Rename pattern, you can then use the custom attribute you defined.

Many thanks for quick replying. You guess I am a newbie in patterns.
What you said is exactly what I am trying to do… without succeeding.

Irrelevant message. Canceled.

I have tried:

1- Name matches: <•2keep><•Trash>
Where <•2keep> and <•Trash> are 2 custom text attributes
with:
<•2keep> is <aaaaaaaaa> or <abc> and
<•Trash> is <__ABC_defgh.net> or <anything (…)>


2- Name matches: <•2keep>__<•Trash>
with:
<•2keep> is <aaaaaaaaa> or <abc>
<•Trash> is <ABC_defgh.net> or <anything (…)>

Does not work.

Have you tried the preview? Does it show the condition matching there?

Yes.
No matching issue.

Is there anyone who would be kind enough to share with me, an example of a similar example working on his machine ?
A simple renaming process should be simple enough to avoid using other specialized utilities (NameMangler, etc), no ?

From what you described, it looks ok. When you say not matching issue, you mean it matched? If so, then please follow through with the rest of the troubleshooting guide here: https://www.noodlesoft.com/kb/hazel-tro ... ing-guide/

OK.
I will follow the Troubleshooting Guide and come back to you.
Thanks again.

Problem solved. There was an interference between 2 rules.It now works like a dream

By the way, what is the use of the "Disable Helper" button in the prefs Debug pane ?

Many thanks again for your precious help.
Hazel is a great utility and M. Noodle is its prophet. !!

Special case where for some reason you need to turn off the helper process entirely. Normally, it will restart itself even if you kill it.