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I cannot figure how to do this. I have a main folder called organise, which I want Hazel to scan and move the files to another hard drive which has a set of alphabetical folders.

ie move Psychoville > P (Folders are named just by a letter)

I have done this with rules, but having to duplicate a rule 25 times for the alphabet and relink to a different folder is tiresome. I thought I could invoke some sort of pattern, but couldn’t find out how to do it.



Also is there a way of not having a huge list of folders to scroll through, when I have to specify a new folder. It would be much more useful to have the "Other..." as the default top item.

Read up on match patterns and custom tokens in the help. You can match the first character then rename using only that character.

Did you ever get this figured out? Because I sure can't

What we do is use custom matching tokens. There are many explanations on the forums, but I had some time and I thought I'd write a step by step introduction for this use case. You can find that post here.

a_freyer wrote:What we do is use custom matching tokens. There are many explanations on the forums, but I had some time and I thought I'd write a step by step introduction for this use case. You can find that post here.

Unbelievable… I swear this is what I did, but it didn't work… used your solution and it worked like a charm, THANKS! Nice "tut"… thanks for spelling it out too!