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Hi...I'd love some help with this...

Using Hazel to process my downloads folder. I've figured out the subfolder rule, you'll be glad to hear, but my problem is when I use Hazel to:

"Sort file into subfolder with pattern extension".

This works fine the first time Hazel runs but when Hazel runs a second time it runs the initial subfolder rule again on the subfolder it created the first time and makes another inside that so ultimately my file path looks like this...

~/Downloads/dmg/dmg/dmg/dmg/dmg/Example.dmg

And this carries on until I stop Hazel, which happened about 8 hours and many, MANY subfolders later...LOL

Should I be using the "Ignore" command somehow, or does "Subfolder depth" have something to do with it?

Also where can I learn some basic shell scripting.

Many thanks...

You need to filter out these folders. It's up to you to figure out what condition makes sense but unless you tell it otherwise, Hazel is going to drill down into every folder it finds.