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I'm new to Hazel so I'm having trouble creating this:

I want Hazel to monitor my entire Dropbox folder (including all subfolders), and apply a label to any folder that is empty. I don't want to delete it, just to easily tell it apart.

I think I'm getting tripped up on getting it to properly go into subfolders, because I've manage to get the first-level folders to be labelled (I'm assuming because they have an empty folder somewhere in their sub-folders...), but nothing else.

Thanks for any help.

Three rules will solve the problem you've presented:

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Rule 1: Label Empties

If (All) of the following are true ...
     Kind is Folder
     Size is 0 bytes

Then
     Set color label to _______



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Rule 2: Un-Label Full

If (All) of the following are true ...
     Kind is Folder
     Size is greater than  0 bytes

Then
     Set color label to BLANK



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Rule 3: Dive into Subfolders

If (All) of the following are true ...
     Kind is Folder

Then
     Run rules on folder contents.



I was typing a response as a_freyer's post came in. So, uh, yeah, what he said.

I still can't get it too work...
I didn't understand the concept of the "Run rules on folder contents". So it applies all the rules for that folder to all its subfolders? What if I have other rules for the same folder that I don't want to be applied to subfolders?

Here are my three rules.

Check the preview. See what it thinks the size is.

tkilgour wrote:So it applies all the rules for that folder to all its subfolders?

Yup. It will apply ALL rules to ALL subfolders, as our rules are currently written.

tkilgour wrote:What if I have other rules for the same folder that I don't want to be applied to subfolders?

It will also run those rules too. One way to prevent this is to add something like this to your other rules:

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If (all) of the following are true:
     ... your rule criteria ...
     Subfolder depth = [THE SUBFOLDER DEPTH OF THE FOLDER THAT THIS RULE SHOULD UNIQUELY APPLY TO; FOR YOU I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY 0]

Then
     ... your actions....


Subfolder depth is defined like this:

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0. Folder that you're monitoring (e.g. Dropbox for you)
    1. Any folder at this level
           2. Any folder at the third level
                  3. other
           2. Still subfolder depth of 2
    1. Still subfolder depth of 1

I can only see what it applies to the first level of folders and (obviously) they're all full... is there a way to see what it is applying to the subfolders?

Thanks a_freyer, I get it now. It doesn't seem very intuitive though... It seems like there should be a way to turn it on for each rule...