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Hey guys. I'm hoping someone can help with this. I've just started getting into Hazel, so I thought I'd start out simple. I just wanted to make a rule that will trash bit torrent files once their respective downloads have completed. When downloads finish, my bittorrent client is set to dump the .torrent files into a folder called "• Trash Torrent Files." Once they land in there, I just want Hazel to delete them to the trash. Here's the rule I set up to do so:



and when I click the icon to preview rule matching, here's what Hazel shows:



So obviously, no matches are showing up in the right column despite the fact that there are 4 .torrent files sitting in there. I've tried a variety of different things with the rule syntax, and was only able to get it to work if I used "Full Name Contains '.torrent'" -- but I shouldn't have to use a workaround for a simple task like this. I've tried some other common file extensions as well and got the same results: it doesn't work. I've also tried clicking on "Run Rules Now" and still nothing happens. So it seems fairly clear to me that Hazel is having trouble recognizing file extensions. Could this be a flaw in the software, or is it simply user error?

I would really appreciate any guidance you guys can offer. I'm running Hazel 3.0.18 on Snow Leopard 10.6.8, if that helps. Thanks!

Hi, exlxaxd. Nice detailed, visual post. I'm too lazy to create images for my reply.

Try changing the condition to:

Extension is torrent

… or removing the '.' prefix from the condition's extension text field.

It can be helpful to display attributes for files by clicking their white-circled Info buttons in the preview interface. Try that with a torrent file and you'll see torrent (no '.' prefix) as its Extension.

This doesn't help exlxaxd, but versions 3.1 and later are more forgiving and will allow the leading dot on the extension.

Damn... such a simple solution. I can't believe I didn't try that.
Thanks sjk!

Mr_Noodle wrote:This doesn't help exlxaxd, …

exlxaxd wrote:Damn... such a simple solution.

Glad you got it working, however you did.