::Sigh:: Moving Complete Folders to Another Folder

[Nuku]

Hi guys/gals
Banging my head on something prolly pretty simple.

My setup:
*I have a folder called Automatic on my desktop.
*I download TV Torrents to this folder.
*Each TV torrent downloads essentially as a FOLDER to inside 'Automatic'
*Most of these TV torrent folders have different names inside this 'Automatic' folder

I want to setup a rule for every particular TV show Name so I can have Hazel 'see it' in the Automatic folder and then transfer it to a NAS drive to a specific TV show folder.

Example:
Inside Automatic Folder is: Storage.Wars.Texas.S02E04.720p.HDTV.x264-LMAO .. (FOLDER)
On my NAS Drive I have a folder called TV Shows, inside that folder is Storage Wars Texas, where I want hazel to send it to.

So yes initially I will have to build separate rules for every tv show in the beginning.
But I can't figure out the correct rule to do this. I have tried several things but it ends up sending every tv show to the NAS drive folder. So, it works to send it, but it won't differentiate between different tv show names.

Any advice would be great. hopefully I got the idea across correctly.
Thanks in advance.

[a_freyer]

If your naming syntax from the Automatic folder is always going to be predictable, you can use Custom Tokens and Subfolder Sorting to accomplish this for all shows, without having to create specific rules.

As far as why your current setup isn't working, I think we need more information. What have you tried?

[Nuku]

Thx for the reply so quickly.
Yes, more than likely the naming would be same except for the episode number..
Anyways what I have tried:

if any
Name (and Full Name) is Storage.Wars.Texas (or even without the periods)
Do:
Move file - to folder: Storage Wars Texas (browsed to it)
-------------------This didnt work at all

if any
Kind is Folder
Name is:
-------------------This downloaded all tv shows (with different names) folders to specified place instead of just the one

Just a few that I have tried..

[a_freyer]

You really should be using custom tokens. It will make your life worlds easier. Here is what I'd suggest:

We're using text substitution, subfolder sorting, and custom matching tokens:

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if (all) of the following conditions are met for (the file or folder being matched)
    Name matches (Name with Periods Included•)(Season •)(Episode •)(Citation Garbage •)

Do the following to the matched file or folder:
    Move to "TV Shows"
    Sort into Subfolder (Name with Periods Included) [REPLACE TEXT: "." Replaced With " "]


Now, the tokens are this:

(Name with Periods Included•) = (...)
(Season •) = S(12)(12)
(Episode •) = E(12)(12)
(Citation Garbage •) = (...)

Which in plain English means:

(Name with Periods Included•) = Any text at all
(Season •) = An "S" followed by two digits
(Episode •) = An "E" followed by two digits
(Citation Garbage •) = Any text at all

Now, when we order these together as suggested in the rule, we can extract the name and sort it unto a subfolder after moving, etc.

[a_freyer]

if any
Name (and Full Name) is Storage.Wars.Texas (or even without the periods)
Do:
Move file - to folder: Storage Wars Texas (browsed to it)
-------------------This didnt work at all

The reason this didn't work is because the name is line will only accept EXACT matches. So since your filenames contain all the season and episode garbage the rule will never match.

if any
Kind is Folder
Name is:
-------------------This downloaded all tv shows (with different names) folders to specified place instead of just the one

The reason this didn't work is because you didn't supply a name to be matched. Hazel said "Well, ok. All of these folder have a name, so it looks like he wants me to move them all."

Hope the explanations help.

[Nuku]

Ok, played around with it more with your advice on custom tokens, (obviously I noob'd it up)
I think that might be the trick, it has successfully transferred 3 shows from the rules to the correct places on the NAS drive..
Thx for your help! You've been a great lead.