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Hi

can anyone give me a hint on how to achieve the following rule:

I have hundreds of project folders that are named according the rule: "clientname - projectname". What I want Hazel to do is create a subfolder with the client name, move the "clientname - projectname" folder into it and change the folder's name to "projectname".

Is there a way to go for it?

Thanks for your hints and tips to a Hazel newbie,
Thomas

Search the help for "match patterns". Use those to create custom tokens for the clientname and projectname. Use the clientname token in the Sort into subfolder action's pattern and then use the projectname token in the Rename action's pattern. That should do it.

Thanks a lot! Works like a charm!
The only issue is, that the rule immediately runs while I'm copying a project folder on the target disk, so the copy process stops because the target folder already moved into a subfolder.
Is there anything I could do to "delay" the rule, or automatically disable and enable it for the time new data is copied to the target disk?

Thomas

You can do something like "date added is not in the last X minutes".

That's a wrap! Perfect! Thanks a lot for that hint - this works great!