Filing Files Based on Week

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Filing Files Based on Week Thu Jul 12, 2018 9:59 am • by mmandell
Looking to make a rule that takes all files added to a folder in a week, creates a folder, adds them to the new folder and does this every week.

At the end of a month there would be ~4 folders there.
End of a year 52.

How would you create this rule?
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Re: Filing Files Based on Week Thu Jul 12, 2018 10:22 am • by Mr_Noodle
You can use Sort into subfolder with "date added" as the pattern. Edit the date to only use the "week of the year" attribute.
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Re: Filing Files Based on Week Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:08 am • by mmandell
Thanks!

Worked great.

Is there a tutorial that covers each of the operator options in 1 doc, or not right now?
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Re: Filing Files Based on Week Fri Jul 13, 2018 11:13 am • by Mr_Noodle
Which operator options? Not sure what you mean by that but you can check the in-app help/manual for details on most things.
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Re: Filing Files Based on Week Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:56 pm • by mmandell
@MrNoodle, what I meant was a page that shows each option (Move / Sort Into Subfolder / etc) and a quick 1 sentence on what each means.

I am having an issue now where this rule is creating a YYYY-MM folder and then sorting some into the subfolder of that, so creating a subfolder instead of sorting into main folder.

This happened when I copied the rule and moved the copy to another folder.
The original rule seems to have been changed.

How can I troubleshoot this?
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Re: Filing Files Based on Week Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:52 am • by Mr_Noodle
The manual does have a single chapter for that.

If subfolders are being sorted into subfolders, then that means you didn't filter them out in your rules. Remember that rules apply to everything in a folder so it's up to you to prevent that.
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Re: Filing Files Based on Week Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:22 pm • by mmandell
How would I filter them out since the folder being sorted into was created on last rule run.
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Re: Filing Files Based on Week Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:33 am • by Mr_Noodle
Shouldn't matter. Not everything is done in a single pass.
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