Rule Being Repeatedly Triggered

[fieldnoise]

Hi all,

Longtime Hazel user back after a long absence to the newest version. I'm currently running two rules on a folder, and both of them use the trusty "Date Added" is after "Date Last Matched," which in the past has worked for getting Hazel to processes files newly added to a folder. One of these rules seems to work as I expect. The other, though, triggers frequently and in quick succession, sometimes firing off 5 or 6 times in a minute or a two, as you can see from this screenshot of the rules and the log:



Any idea what I might be doing wrong here? Thanks!

[Mr_Noodle]

Can you show a large excerpt of the logs around one of those messages? Is it possible there is an error and Hazel is re-trying the rule?

Is the file being actively written to?

[fieldnoise]

Is it possible there is an error and Hazel is re-trying the rule?

Ahh, okay — that was it. I'm running the rules on a Dropbox folder which I have set to always be locally sync'ed or whatever, but when I was uploading files from my phone it was triggering the rule before the file was fully pulled down from the cloud (at least I think that was happening). So one of my rules was failing, and then it kept retrying.

The solution I found—which might be handy for other Dropbox users—is to use an intermediate folder with its own rules. So now I send the file from my phone to a folder called "Uploads," which then moves the file into the folder with these rules acting on it. My first few runs of that workflow have been successful.

Cheers!