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I'm trying to make a rule that will add a date to files added to a folder. I added a condition:

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Name - does not match - <number>.<number>.<number><anything>

So that it won't match again after adding the timestamp in the "format year.month.day - name". This seems to work fine for files, but not for folders. When I preview the rule against a folder named "2016.5.15 - Awesome Stuff", it shows "Name: 2016.5", and it shows that the condition matches. If I change the condition to use "Full Name", it correctly shows the complete folder name and that the condition does not match.

I'm just wondering why the name is truncated for folders and if there is any downside to using the "Full Name" attribute. Thanks!

The problem here is that anything after the period is considered the extension, not the name. So, yes, you want to use Full name here.

The problem here is that anything after the period is considered the extension, not the name.

But "Name" works fine for files, only folders have the problem. Is that expected?

Can you show me a case of that? It's pretty consistent from what I've seen.

I have two items in my Temp folder:

"2016.5.10 - Tmux Config.md"
"2016.5.20 - Test Folder"

This is the preview result for the file:


And the folder:

Note in the first case, the extension is md. It just so happens you don't have the equivalent for the folder so it's grabbing .20....

Ah, ok. I guess that makes sense. Thanks!