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Is there a way to use Hazel to truncate a file name to skip the first 10 characters? I'm downloading files from a school web-site. As I do it, the site adds 10 seemingly random characters to the from of the filename. I'd like to remove them.

Thanks.

You can use pattern matching/custom attributes for this. Read the help on "match patterns". Basically, create a pattern to match 10 characters and then have a custom attribute match the rest of the name. Then in the rename action, you can use that custom attribute (which should be everything but the first 10 characters).