Noodlesoft Forums

I dont quite understand how Hazel handles applescript and cant get this to work:

The script looks for .rar files in a folder and deletes them IF there is a .img or .iso or .mp4 file in the same folder.

Code: Select all

on hazelProcessFile(theFile, inputAttributes)
   
   tell application "System Events"
      set rarfiles to name of theFile whose name ends with ".rar"
      set notRarFiles to name of theFile whose name ends with ".iso" or name ends with ".img" or name ends with ".mp4"
      set i to 0
      repeat with aName in notRarFiles
         set i to i + 1
         set item i of notRarFiles to text 1 thru -5 of aName
      end repeat
      repeat with aRarFile in rarfiles
         if text 1 thru -5 of aRarFile is in notRarFiles then delete theFile aRarFile
      end repeat
   end tell
   
end hazelProcessFile

Here is the original applescript

Code: Select all

set theFolder to ((choose folder) as text)

tell application "System Events" to tell folder theFolder
   set rarfiles to name of files whose name ends with ".rar"
   set notRarFiles to name of files whose name ends with ".iso" or name ends with ".img" or name ends with ".mp4"
   set i to 0
   repeat with aName in notRarFiles
      set i to i + 1
      set item i of notRarFiles to text 1 thru -5 of aName
   end repeat
   repeat with aRarFile in rarfiles
      if text 1 thru -5 of aRarFile is in notRarFiles then delete file aRarFile
   end repeat
end tell

Have you tried running the script outside of Hazel? If it doesn't work there then you need to debug it to see what's going wrong. I suggest outputting the values of the different variables at each step.

Yes it works fine outside Hazel. I just want to make sure i use correct parameters for Hazel here.

Anyone know of more documentation about scripts and Hazel in general (more than the help text inside Hazel)?

AppleScript is a pretty big topic so you'll have to google around for different resources. Again, though, I recommend putting in statements to display the values of the different variables at different points in the script. Right now, the only obvious thing that I would focus on is that maybe the script assumes everything is in a certain directory which you cannot assume when the script is run by Hazel.