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I want to devise a Hazel rule that will act when my MacJournal database has closed/finished saving, but it's not clear how I can ensure the MJ Dbase is available before the rule starts to act. Effectively this would be when I quit MacJournal, but the file would need to autosave before the Hazel rule starts to apply. The full sequence would be:

On closure (of file Macjournal.data),
archive/compress file MacJournal Data
upload to folder DropBox/Apps/Macjournal backups

An alternative would be to upload to Box.

The reason for compressing the database to .zip is that DropBox and other cloud services have a habit of messing up package files so it's best they see a single file.

I'm sure this is very simple so I'm probably missing something....

I've more or less managed to sort this but a more elegant way might be to create a rule to archive a backup folder. However if I do that, Hazel will archive/zip the folder and then move the original to the trash.

Is it possible to use the archive command whilst leaving the original intact? IE creat the archive but not move the original to the trash. I would then add a rule to move the archived/zip version to DropBox as a backup.

Try copying the file first before archiving.

Thanks Mr Noodle. I did think of doing that but wondered whether there was something I was missing that would enable me to just zip the file without Hazel dumping the original.

Whilst posting, is there a .pdf/iBooks manual on Hazel ,or are there just the help files accessed via the Help menu?

Just the help files plus the support section on the site itself (https://www.noodlesoft.com/support). Check there as it does link to articles on other sites.

Mr_Noodle wrote:Just the help files plus the support section on the site itself (https://www.noodlesoft.com/support). Check there as it does link to articles on other sites.

OK. Thanks for the tip.