Run only on single file being added to a subfolder [SOLVED]

Last edited by K1TSUNE on Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Hello,

I find Hazel extremely difficult to figure out, perhaps I'm trying to do something it can't do. But I'm assuming it can with the right rules logic.

What I'm trying to accomplish
I have a TVSHOWS folder within it TVshows (IE: Breaking Bad)
In each TVshow folder, there are Season folders (Season 01, Season 02, etc..)
When a .srt file is added for an episode I need Hazel to run a shell script (forwarding the file+path to a python script that will clean up the .srt file)

Based on the support document I currently have;
"ON CHANGE"
Same as here: https://www.noodlesoft.com/manual/hazel ... ubfolders/

Then the set of rules in "CLEAN SUBS"
(for testing) display a notification if the file extension contains 'srt'

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Problem with the above is that it does run on the file I add but then also does ALL other .srt files in the entire TVSHOWS folder even though I only add a single .srt file to one specific Season folder.

Any help is greatly appreciated, I'v already wasted 2 hours of my life on this.

Can you post your rule to process .srt files?

So like I said it uses the subfolder code from support doc:

Rules for finding any .srt in an updated/changed folder:

Folder structure example:

TVSHOWS

So again what I'm trying to accomplish is when is say when a .srt file gets added to a Season folder, it will run the rules on just that file, or if that's not possible, just that single folder that has been updated ("date modified?")

If you only want to have the rule match the first time the file is added, try adding a condition like "Date added is after date last matched".

That date match rule is a good addition.

It seems though that I just had to first let it "notify" each and every single match.

From that point on it not notifies (runs the rules) whenever I add a .srt file, instead of (what it seemed to be doing) running it on any .srt file.

So it wasnt until I let it run for a good time that it is now where it'll just work on a each new file.