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Can hazel look into the content of text documents? For instance, I want to have Hazel look for all documents that have the word "photoshop" in them and then file them. Can I do this, and if so, how?

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Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:18 pm • by Mr_Noodle
I am actually working on this now for the next point release. The problem is that the "Text Content" Spotlight attribute doesn't work as-is because it's the one Spotlight property that is treated differently than all the others.

It will probably be a new attribute called "Contents" that you can check whether it contains/does not contain whatever text. Note that it will be using Spotlight so if you can't search on it in Spotlight, Hazel probably won't see it either.
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Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:31 pm • by amr
Thanks for the update. Yeah, I tried the "Text Content" which is what I thought would do the trick. Anyway, I'm looking forward to your next update.

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