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I am brand new to Hazel and have spent hours trying to get a rule to count the number of files in a folder and then move them to a subfolder with the date added as the folder name. Please can someone help? I am totally stuck.

To keep things simple (and hopefully clear) I have a folder on my Desktop called "Expenses" and once there are 10 PDF's in here I want Hazel to create a new folder (within the Expenses folder) using the current date as the name and move the 10 PDF's into that folder.

In my head I thought this would work, I have the following rule pointing at the Desktop-

If [all] of the following conditions are met-
[Number of items] [is] [10]
[Sort into Sub folder] with pattern [date added]

But it doesn't work and i have no idea why not? Sorry if this is a dumb question.

You can't count the number of items of the folder Hazel is monitoring. Keep in mind that the rules apply to the items within a folder, not the folder itself.

Instead, you can try to have Hazel monitor the folder containing this folder. Have the rule match the folder. From there, you can do several things:

- Move the whole folder to the new location and rename it.
- Have Hazel go into that subfolder (see the sticky article at the top of this forum on how to do that), then have another rule process the files within.

Thank you so much for this, seriously appreciate the help!