Moving Movies

[InventEd]

Hi,

I have two rules set up.

First tells Hazel to look for folders and then performs following rules on subfolders

Second looks for kind 'Movie' and then
a: Moves to 'Video' folder
b:arranges into subfolders by year, month

I did exactly the same thing for images and it worked well. When I do this for Movies it seams to copy them all across but with a size of Zero kb.

Any ideas why this might be happening?

In case it is relevant the files are all being moved on a networked storage device (ReadyNAS). The source and destination of the files are all on the same readyNAS drive, I don't know if Hazel copies them via the MAC?

Thanks for any help.

Cheers

Ed

[Mr_Noodle]

Are the movies being saved/downloaded at the time when Hazel moves them? If so, what program is doing the saving/downloading? Also, have you test it on folders not on the NAS?

[InventEd]

Not downloading them. They are all files that just live in the NAS drive in the folders where I have imported them from my camera of smartphone in the past. In fact I have about 20 years of photos and videos that are in all kinds of different folders that I am getting Hazel to sort out for me.

I will try doing the same on the local computer and let you know what happens.

[Mr_Noodle]

Try checking the logs as well. Go to the "Info" section and click on "View Log". See if there are any errors involving the files you are trying to move.

[InventEd]

They appear to move OK on the local machine. Only tried a simple test locally.

On the network drive some of the pictures are a long way down the file structure. They are still copying with zero bytes and this is a typical part of the log file with no obvious errors;

2016-02-29 22:41:12.739 hazelworker[14003] [File Event] File copied: IMG_0481.MOV copied from folder /Volumes/Pictures/To Sort/pic_7nov15/Pictures/Aug 2010/2010/08 to folder /Volumes/Videos.
2016-02-29 22:41:13.207 hazelworker[14003] [File Event] File moved into subfolder: /Volumes/Videos/2016/2/IMG_0481.MOV sorted from folder /Volumes/Videos to subfolder 2016/2.
2016-02-29 22:41:14.556 hazelworker[14003] IMG_0486.MOV: Rule Move Reorg Movies matched.
2016-02-29 22:41:16.448 hazelworker[14003] [File Event] File copied: IMG_0486.MOV copied from folder /Volumes/Pictures/To Sort/pic_7nov15/Pictures/Aug 2010/2010/08 to folder /Volumes/Videos.
2016-02-29 22:41:17.136 hazelworker[14003] [File Event] File moved into subfolder: /Volumes/Videos/2016/2/IMG_0486.MOV sorted from folder /Volumes/Videos to subfolder 2016/2.
2016-02-29 22:41:18.251 hazelworker[14003] IMG_0488.MOV: Rule Move Reorg Movies matched.
2016-02-29 22:41:20.480 hazelworker[14003] [File Event] File copied: IMG_0488.MOV copied from folder /Volumes/Pictures/To Sort/pic_7nov15/Pictures/Aug 2010/2010/08 to folder /Volumes/

[Mr_Noodle]

What network file protocol does the NAS use?

[InventEd]

I have both SMB and AFP operating on the NAS. I will check tonight which I used as I have the drive mapped as both types. Is there a preference for which one Hazel will work best with?

[Mr_Noodle]

It's not clear nowadays. SMB is the default which indicates to me that Apple is moving away from AFP. I suggest trying both in isolation to see if one behaves any better than the other.

[InventEd]

Now working using SMB! Thanks for the help. I do get the below error in the log on each file. I assume this is because it is on a remote drive (thats a guess). Or am I understanding that wrong?


2016-03-02 15:32:11.351 hazelworker[15609] [File Event] File moved into subfolder: File /Volumes/Videos/IMG_2145.MOV is a dupe of file at destination. Moving to Trash.
2016-03-02 15:32:11.384 hazelworker[17887] ###main load address: 0x10a752000
2016-03-02 15:32:11.385 hazelworker[17887] ###Noodle load address: 0x10a85e000
2016-03-02 15:32:11.385 hazelworker[17887] ###CK load address: 0x10a825000
2016-03-02 15:32:11.395 hazelworker[17887] Processing folder Trash
2016-03-02 15:32:11.559 hazelworker[15609] IMG_2146.MOV: Rule Move Reorg Video matched.
2016-03-02 15:32:17.594 hazelworker[15609] [File Event] File copied: IMG_2146.MOV copied from folder /Volumes/Pictures/Pictures From Backup/Emmas Phone/Pictures/2012/03 to folder /Volumes/Videos.
2016-03-02 15:32:20.958 hazelworker[17887] Error while checking uninstall log date: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory"
2016-03-02 15:32:21.075 hazelworker[17887] Done processing folder Trash

[Mr_Noodle]

The message about the uninstall log date? That's something else entirely and only an issue if you are using the multi-user app sweep feature.