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Hi all

I have a Shortcut that I am running to rename a file based on a Regex when I move it. Basically to remove a bunch of nomenclature from the end of the file name.

It works in Shortcuts and it works in the Finder but when I assign to to a rule nothing happens. It isn't appearing in the logs and no matter if I trigger it before or after the file moving it still isn't being launched.

Anyone have an idea why this would be the case?

TIA

Can you post/send the shortcut?

Screenshot of it is here

https://imgur.com/a/sxNimKL

I just entered in the shortcut (at least the first few actions. I don't think I have the "trim" action). I even added a notification at the end to print out the shortcut input.

Only other thing different was that I did not set the "input from <<>>" part. See if you can clear it out and see if it works after that.

What are you using to get the file reference?

Not sure what you are asking. The file is sent in as input.

Could you post a screenshot of the Shortcut?

So the issue is, as many of you already know, that Shortcuts works on a copy of the file you send it. So in my case Hazel was sending the file to the Shortcut and then the Shortcut was working on a copy. Hazel then moved the file it had and then Shortcuts left its copy in a temp directory.

I rewrote the Shortcut so that it renamed the file and then moved it to the correct directory and then Hazel deleted the original.

Any chance that there can be a regex option added to the rename action?

Not directly. Check out "match patterns" in the help for similar functionality.