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I usually try and figure things out for myself but I'm really busy and I've spent time on this and am just fed up --- surely this is easy and I just don't get it. thanks in advance for your help.

my situation is that I have a folder tree of documents (nothing special, nothing particularly big -- mostly docs, pdfs, some images). I want to sync all of that into another directory (it's actually Boxcryptor which is then encrypting the files into a OneDrive account -- I don't think this is an issue but I'm not 100% sure.)

so, what I want (and I assume this is all part of the 'sync' function):
- if I add a file to the source folder tree I want that copied to the target tree
- if I create a folder in the source, I want that mirrored in the target
- if I rename or edit a file or folder, I want that reflected in the target
- if I delete a file or folder, I want that mirrored in the target

in other words, the target should be an exact copy of the target.

here's the rule I have. (I down loaded a number of rulesets from the forums and none worked for me):

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if any of the following conditions are met
 date last modified is after date last matched
 date added is in the last 5 minutes
 full name did change
 any file

do the following to the matched file or folder:
 sync into folder [foo]

frankly, I'm not convinced this is working 100% and I have to think there's a better way. (I also have a separate rule to handle any files at the root of the tree as these don't seem to be handled by the above rule).

please tell me: what's the best and most flawless way to do this? I love the idea of Hazel and look forward to use it for other things but I'm incredibly busy right now and need this to work... thank you and I'm sorry if I'm just an idiot.


Check out this thread here: http://www.noodlesoft.com/forums/viewto ... 1593#p6500

An important thing to note is if you are syncing a whole folder, you want to monitor the folder that contains it, and then have the rule match the folder (the one you want to sync, not the containing folder).

I'm also trying to do the same.
Just a simple sync of a folder to an external drive that "syncs" all changes.

How hard does this have to be?

Did you read the article? If so, can you be more specific about what your problem is?

Mr_Noodle wrote:Did you read the article? If so, can you be more specific about what your problem is?

Yes I have read the article and have downloaded the rule. However, all I am after is for hazel to sync a folder from my computer to an external driver and replicate any changes.

The only thing it seems to do now is recreate new folders on the target folder when it's created on the sources folder.
However, if I rename a folder, delete it, add new files, or modify existing files, the target folder does not update those changes.

It's a simple request.
Sync a folder and replicate all changes within it.

Thank you.

Can you provide more details like the folders involved, which folder Hazel is monitoring and if there are other rules in play here?