Copy ONLY Files in Subfolders AND Files within New Subfolder

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Hi

I have a rule mostly working, but it needs a little fine tuning. I need to copy files that are in a subfolder to another folder. That part I have working. The other part is, I need any files within a subfolder copied when that new subfolder is added to the original parent folder. Something like this:

Parent_Folder_to_be_Copied_From
--Subfolder
--- Filetobecopied.xx

Parent_Folder_to_be_Copied_To
--Copy_of_Filetobecopied.xx

Sometimes a new subfolder with file(s) will be added to the folder Parent_Folder_to_be_Copied_From. I need those new files copied to Parent_Folder_to_be_Copied_To, but only the files within the new folder. Not the subfolder. It should only ever have one subfolder within the parent. I don't think it will ever go deeper than one.

Here is how my rule is currently setup and the monitored folder is Parent_Folder_to_be_Copied_From

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3v6kipgw ... 298l1&dl=0
getthething
 
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I'm not clear on the problem here. Can you provide more concrete examples of what is going on?
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Hopefully this is more clear. So, I have a folder called "ebooks" and within that folder there are subfolders for each author. Like so:

ebooks
- Stephen King
-- The Shining

- Michael Crichton
-- Jurassic Park


I would like any of the book files to be copied into the top level of another folder called "Calibre Library", containing no subfolders. I would also like any new book files added to an existing author folder to copy over. Which I think have working. The piece I don't have working is when a new author subfolder is added. So say a brand new folder for "George Orwell" containing a book file "1984" is added, I would like 1984 copied to the top level of "Calibre Library".

So:

ebooks
- Stephen King
-- The Shining

- Michael Crichton
-- Jurassic Park


Becomes:

ebooks
- Stephen King
-- The Shining

- Michael Crichton
-- Jurassic Park

- George Orwell
-- 1984


And the Calibre folder becomes:

Calibre
- The Shining
- Jurassic Park
- 1984


And then anytime a new author folder or a new file to an existing author folder is added it will copy the book files to the Calibre folder.
getthething
 
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For the cases where it's copying the folder, can you go through the troubleshooting guide here? https://www.noodlesoft.com/kb/hazel-tro ... ing-guide/

Report back with the results of that.
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