Unpack archives, delete archive files, move unpacked files

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I am currently evaluating Hazel whether it suits the following need:

1) Watch a download folder;
2) Unpack incoming RAR files;
3) Delete archive files after unpacking;
4) Move unpacked files to <somefolder>

So far, I have only figured out step 1 and 2. Are steps 3 and 4 possible with Hazel as well, if yes, how?

Also, I don´t know how to deal with the new naming scheme of multipart RAR archives... (.part1.rar , .part2.rar etc) - if I set Hazel to unpack all RAR files, it tries to unpack each part of the multipart archive, if i set Hazel to unpack only .part1.rar - files, it doesn´t catch "normal" RAR files :( What would be a good rule that catches "normal" RAR files + .part1.rar ones?

I´d appreciate all help to these questions.
Once this works, I´ll buy Hazel definitely because solving this would be a major timesaver for me :)

Cheers
Kenny
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Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:58 pm • by Mr_Noodle
Unfortunately, Hazel only supports the base archive types that Finder can handle so no RAR support at this time.

If you have a commandline rar unarchiver program, you can maybe script something to deal with the multipart archives.

I've added RAR support to the feature db for now at least. Thanks.
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