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Most of my rules for processing pdfs end with a rule that is something like this..

Move to Folder: (Foo)

Where Foo is some directory beneath ~jeff/Documents/Paperless/2014/

This works great through out the year however its painful this time of year when I start getting 2015 documents. Last year I went through 30 some rules and changed /2013/ to 2014. Is there a better approach to this? Maybe 'anchoring' ~jeff/Documents/2015 so that next year I just have to change the anchor point? (i.e. ~jeff/Documents/2016)

Thanks,
Jeff

Just idea. What about create folder
~jeff/Documents/Paperless/Year/

and this folder will be link to the

~jeff/Documents/Paperless/2014/

and in the year 2015 you change link
~jeff/Documents/Paperless/Year/
to
~jeff/Documents/Paperless/2015/

and your all Hazel rules will use only
~jeff/Documents/Paperless/Year/

So once a year you have to change your link to actual folder and
not in all rules.

Lubomir

How about moving the file to ~jeff/Documents/Paperless, the using the Sort into subfolder action to move it into a subfolder based on year, like "(date created)>Foo" where you edit (date created) to only show the year and ">" is the path separator token?

Mr_Noodle wrote:How about moving the file to ~jeff/Documents/Paperless, the using the Sort into subfolder action to move it into a subfolder based on year, like "(date created)>Foo" where you edit (date created) to only show the year and ">" is the path separator token?

That's exactly what I needed. Thanks!