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I've done two rules

RULES IN A CERTAIN FOLDER
1. When creating a folder it is copied also to another directory

2. Then Populate the original folder with a couple of folders and so on.


PROBLEM
Rule number 1 stops rule nr 2 from setting off

The images aren't coming through but keep in mind that a file/folder can only match one rule. If you expect it to match both rules, you need to either combine the rules into one or use the "Continue" action.

Mr_Noodle wrote:The images aren't coming through but keep in mind that a file/folder can only match one rule. If you expect it to match both rules, you need to either combine the rules into one or use the "Continue" action.

Thank you for the reply!
Oh okay. The problem I had is still that even if I put them in the same rule they won't execute well. I want the created folder to copy itself to a directory before its being populated. Instead it populate the folder before its copied and leaves the folder that I wanted populated untouched :/ I'll post a picture once I've redone and combined the two rules again.

Heres a picture of the code. The Action down at the bottom is the Automationscript that populate the folder.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gfec53yg57oqx1a/Screen%20Shot%202016-10-17%20at%2011.42.56.png?dl=0

But I Kind of see a problem here... I Create a folder. copy it to another and then populate that folder. But I want to populate the original folder ond not the copy... Is there ways to go around this?

I'm not clear exactly on what's going on here. Why create an empty folder then copy it and not populate it? Can't you just create the empty folder at the destination instead?

No sorry, I think I'm lazy in my explaination.
I have a folder where people can populate different project folders. When someone wants to create a project folder I want Hazel to populate it with a structure so that every project follows a similar structure.
When someone creates a Project I want a folder created somewhere with the same name but without all the auto populated content.

So what is in the that folder if it doesn't have the populated content?

Its a folder that receipts and will be synct to from another folder that is within the populated folder haha. But I think I found a Solution. I have to add rules like once I copied it to a certain folder I have to copy that one back to the monitored folder and then apply the populate rule