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As a new Hazel user, I'd like you guys' opinions on whether this workflow I have in mind is achievable with Hazel:

In "Downloads" folder
Look into the content of any folder whose name ends with "/png"
Delete any PNG files inside those matched folders (but ONLY PNG files).
Once done, rename that parent folders so that the names no longers end with "/png"

THe idea is that if I need to delete all PNG files inside a folder, I only need to put "/png" at the end of the folder's name, and Hazel will do the rest for me.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Check out the sticky article about going into subfolders. You can add a condition to the rule given there like "Name ends with /png" so that it only goes into those folders.

To rename the folder afterwards, you can add a rule (before the one above) as follows:

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If all are met for the file being matched
    Name matches (•name) /png
    If all are met for all subfiles
        Extension is not png
Then
    Rename (•name)


where (•name) is defined as (...). This basically matches folders ending with /png but without any png files in it and renames it with the first part of the name before /png. I suggest reading up on "match patterns" in the help.

Thanks a lot. That did the trick