Hazel now working unassisted

Hello Forums! I'm having a problem with my hazel rules running while I'm away. Everything works fine when I come back and test, but not when unattended.

I make use of 3 folders as follows
- originating folder (files are copied from here to "scratch")
- scratch folder (where hazel does all the magic and moves to "finished")
- finished folder (where I get the folders remotely)

----Originating folder rules----
--Copy Folders--
If All conditions are met
Kind is Folder
Color Label is (x)
Do the Following
Set color label (Green)
Copy to (enclosing folder)
Move to (scratch folder)
I did this so the next set of folder rules won't be running on a copy in progress

----Scratch folder rules----
--Trash Folder--
If All conditions are met
Kind is Folder
Size is less than 10kb
Do the Following
Move to (Trash)
--Trash Sample--
If All conditions are met
Kind is Folder
Name is "Sample"
Do the Following
Move to (Trash)
--Trash NFO--
If Any conditions are met
Extension is "NFO"
Do the Following
Move to (Trash)
--Trash SFV--
If Any conditions are met
Extension is "SFV"
Do the Following
Move to (Trash)
--TVRenamer--
If All conditions are met
Extension is "mkv"
Color Label is (Blue)
Do the Following
Set color label (X)
Run shell script
--Move MKV--
If All conditions are met
Extension is "mkv"
Color Label is not (Blue)
Do the Following
Move to (Finished Folder)
--Going into Subfolders--
If All conditions are met
Kind is Folder
Subfolder Depth is less than 2
Do the following
Run Rules on folder contents
Set color label (Red)
--UnRar Files--
If All conditions are met
Extension is "rar"
Do the following
Urarchive
Set color label (Blue)
Move to (Enclosing Folder)

Check the troubleshooting guide stickied near the top of this forum and report back with diagnostics from there.

Thanks Mr. Noodle. I know my flow works fine. When I get back to the computer and reset the original file everything works as I expect. Its when im not around it generally gets stuck at the UNRAR part.

Did you check the logs? See if there was an error when trying to do the unarchiving.

I get a "File is busy. Skipping for now" error.
When I come back to the computer only the first 2 rar's are in the folder.
If I delete the scratch folder and set the original file back to "No Color" everything works splendidly. Maybe this is something that prevents it from working correctly if the screen is locked?

If it says that the file is busy, some other program has it open. If you can't figure out which program that is, you can use something like What's Keeping Me to find it.

Mr Noodle. It looks likes either hazel is trying to process the scratch folder too soon, or isnt completely copying over the files from their originating folder.

What is the best way to delay hazel until it has completed its own copy of the parent folder, or to be able to unarchive without deleting the .rar files?

What program is saving out those files? I'm guessing it isn't using proper indicators for Hazel to know that it's still writing out the files. You can add conditions like "Date modified is not in the last X minutes" to delay things.