Mr_Noodle wrote:Those don't apply here. Note that if you go to "File->Folder Options", you can have Hazel handle those types of duplicates for the folders being monitored.
That's useful.....to
some extent.
However I have been trying to understand the definition of "duplicate" because in countless cases duplicate files were not thrown away despite checking the box "Throw away: Duplicate files"
After hours of experimenting, it looks like this duplicate rule only works for
similarly named files with identical content. More precisely, it looks like Hazel automatically removes duplicate files from
the source folder if they are identical to the original and have an identical name
but with "Copy" or " "- 1 " after the name So to illustrate:
If the destination folder contains a file called "birds. pdf":
And the source folder contains identical 4 files called "birds copy.pdf", "birds black.pdf", "gardenbirds.pdf* and "gardenbirds copy.pdf"
Then the following would happen when Hazel tries to move these four files from the source folder to the destination folder:
"Birds copy.pdf" would be deleted because it has the same name as the destination file and the word copy at the end,
"Birds black.pdf would be moved because it does not end in "copy".
"gardenbirds.pdf* would be moved because it does not end in "copy".
and "gardenbirds copy.pdf" would be moved because it does not have the same start name.
Have I understood the functioning correctly?