Move Hazel to new machine

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Move Hazel to new machine Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:51 am • by DaMacGuy
I'm moving to a new Mac Book Pro (yea, me!) but I can't seem to get my previous Hazel setup moved over to the new machine. I've copied everything I can find...
~/Library/Preferences/com.noodlesoft.Hazel.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper.plist
~/Library/Application Support/Hazel/

...to the new machine, but it doesn't show my configured folders (which exist on the new machine). I can try and recreate the folders and import the rulesdb files, but they're not obvious which is which (have to open with textedit and scrounge through the files).

Help... :?
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Re: Move Hazel to new machine Mon Sep 29, 2014 3:12 pm • by Mr_Noodle
If you are on Mavericks or later, you have to use a special procedure as Apple has complicated things:

- Quit System Preferences.
- Launch Activity Monitor and find HazelHelper. Quit the process.
- Find cfprefsd. Kill any that you can (some may be for other accounts and you can't kill them).
- Restore the following:
- In your Library/Application Support folder, the Hazel folder
- In your Library/Preferences folder, the files starting with com.noodlesoft.
- Reboot.
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