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After Hazel moves files based on my rules, I’m left with a lot of empty folders.

I’d like Hazel to detect those empty folders and move them into an Archive folder. I can’t seem to get it to recurse through the folder structure or reliably catch empty folders at the top level after the moves happen.

Is there a native way to handle this kind of recursive empty-folder cleanup in Hazel?

Here's a link to video that shows the issue happening:

https://focusee.imobie.com/share/f27b06 ... uSeeVideo# "M3 (Offload) 2026-04-07 19-18-10"

The problem is that all folders are matching the first rule and never getting to the last one. The troubleshooting guide should help with visualizing this: https://www.noodlesoft.com/kb/hazel-tro ... ing-guide/

You need to either reorder those rules or fix the first rule to not match empty folders.