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I need to setup a rule that checks if a filename is longer then 250 characters (any), and if it is, it should trim the filename to a max of the first 250 characters. How could I do that?

There is no built-in action to do that yet. You'd probably need a script for that part. It is on the feature list as something to consider in the future. Can you supply more details in why you need this?

For my photos, music and documents, which come from various sources, I have build quite a huge Hazel workflow automatically renaming, sorting and archiving the files into directories. I have a multi platform environment (MacOS, Linux, iOS, Windows, some cloud services and NAS to access the files and I have issues in Hazel to process the files when the filename is longer then 254 characters.

In short: Its a rule I want to check the integrity of filenames and folder names to not be longer than that. I already do that to allow only certain characters but limiting the number of characters seems to be a bit harder.

Thanks. It's something already in the feature database and will consider this a vote for the feature. One question though: suppose you truncate the filename and it ends up clashing with a file that is already there. How would you want that dealt with?

Maybe some options:

- truncate one or more character(s)
- add a counter or customcharacters
- overwrite filename
- skip leave filename untouched