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Hey all,

I'm attempting to rename a folder with the following pattern:

<parent folder name> - <folder acted on name>

It works as expected, except when the <folder acted on> has a period (".") in the folder name. At that point, Hazel truncates the folder name to exclude the period and anything following. For example:

State v. Smith

becomes:

<Parent Folder Name> - State v

I've attempted to use "Replace Text" to replace the period with another character (underscore), but that didn't work, and the truncating behavior continued. Is this a bug, or expected behavior with a workaround?

Anything after the last dot is the extension so in this case, you should probably use "Full name" instead of "Name".

Mr_Noodle wrote:Anything after the last dot is the extension so in this case, you should probably use "Full name" instead of "Name".

"Full Name" wasn't available in the Rename action. (A "full name" was available in the Other section, but that didn't seem to produce the available results).

Anyway, using the below worked. Everything after the period appears, folders that don't have a period work fine, too.

<source folder>-<name><extension>

A bit of a work around, but I get the desired results, so thanks!