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Hello guys,

I need to do some picture sorting with Hazel, but I can't get it done.
I am shooting JPEG and RAW and edit some Raws with Lightroom. I export these images as JPEG to my Export folder and they receive a suffix "_edit".

What I want Hazel to do is to monitor my Export folder and then copy new files into my pictures folder and replace the old out of camera JPEG with my edited one. But it should not just overwrite the old pic, but move the old one to another folder.

For example:
DSC0123_edit.jpg gets copied from the Export folder to the Pictures folder as soon as it appears in the Export folder. DSC0123.jpg is then moved to the Backup folder.

I hope that can be done with Hazel.
Thanks, Daniel

There are various options but none which do exactly what you want. You can have Hazel, instead of replacing, renumber the file. You would then need to move the old one away and then rename the new one, dropping the added number.