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I have a recipe set up where whenever Hazel detects changes in a folder, it syncs these changes to a second folder. Unfortunately however, if I modify file_A in the original folder, Hazel does a full copy of the updated file, instead of updating the existing copy of the file.

Normally this doesn't matter, but it seems that iCloud Drive distinguishes between the two behaviors, so on my iPad I need to reopen the "updated" copy of the file every time, since iCloud is telling my iPad the old file no longer exists. On the other hand, modifying the copy directly (manually) does not cause this problem.

Is is possible to setup Hazel in a way where the updates would not result in file being overwritten but updated instead?

Very few programs will update the file in place as it's almost always faster and safer to write to a new file and then swap. What program are you using to modify it directly?