Creating an Alias (or a Pause)

I have been using Hazel for a while now and am very impressed. All files go into a To Sort area, and I use Automator http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/automator/ finder plugins to right-click a file and send it to various watched folder where Hazel does a brilliant job of tagging and moving the files to my Sorted folders.

I have recently started using Journler http://www.journler.com/ which used in conjunction with my other great love Quicksilver http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ is a brilliant way of saving web pages, sections of text, email (whatever) in one place.

Journler also has the function that allows you to send a file or a file alias to a drop folder. This is then tagged and imported to Journler and you can quickly access documents with a single click.

What I would love to do is have Hazel create a file alias and send this to the Journler drop box after it has filed the document to which ever folder I have decreed.

The problem I am encountering is to do with timing. I have a Automator task to create an alias into the Drop Folder, and this works fine, however if I call it from within Hazel, by the time it executes Hazel has already finished and moved the file. (I would love to buy a faster Mac but I don't have the cash and don't think even that would solve this

)The Automator script then loses focus on the selected file and creates an alias of the folder that Hazel was monitoring.

Ideally if Hazel could create the Alias then I could create a sub-rule to move and alias files to the Drop Folder. Alternatively if a pause could be introduced into the Hazel rule, so you could specify something along the lines of

If anyone has a work around for this I would love to here from them.

Cheers

Good news. I actually just finished implementing this. The next version will have a new action to create aliases in whatever folder. It basically looks like this:

(Make alias) in folder: (some folder)

Let me know if that covers what you want.

As for when it will be released, there are quite a few other things I need to get done, including Leopard compatibility stuff but expect it before Leopard ships (hopefully).

Awesome Mr Noodle sir! Thats 2 out of 2 for perfect answers.

Look forward to the next release.

Cheers

Mr_Noodle wrote:Good news. I actually just finished implementing this. The next version will have a new action to create aliases in whatever folder. It basically looks like this:

(Make alias) in folder: (some folder)

Let me know if that covers what you want.

As for when it will be released, there are quite a few other things I need to get done, including Leopard compatibility stuff but expect it before Leopard ships (hopefully).