"Name does not end with" criterion seems to get overlooked.

[halloleo]

Hi all,

I have a two rules attached to a folder "_boxes". (Find the exported rules at http://www.halloleo.net/get/_boxes.hazelrules.)

• The first rule is watching for PDFs without the ending "_x2.pdf" and then invokes a shell script which will create a new file named "<old-file-stem>_x2.pdf".
• The second rule watches for the same (PDFs without the ending _x2.pdf) and then copies the file (the original file of course) to a completely different other location.

When I drop PDFs into the watched folder "_boxes", the original PDFs appear as expected in the other new location, but additionall it hapens sometimes that "_x2.pdf" files appear there too! - Why does this happen? Both rules should only be triggered for PDFs without the ending _x2.pdf. What's going wrong?

Many thanks for any hints!

[Mr_Noodle]

Are you filtering with Name or Full Name? The former only includes the part without the extension so you should be using Full Name instead.

[halloleo]

Thanks for looking into this, Mr Noodle.

I actually test for Name only - but against "_x2" without the extension. See screenshot of the first rule:



Any idea why this odd behaviour occurs?

[Mr_Noodle]

Can you preview the rule? If the condition doesn't match, click the red badge to show how the name looks to Hazel. Post a screenshot of that.

[halloleo]

Oooooh, my bad! The first rule condition has as described Name does not end with "_x2", but the second one had erroneously Name does not end with "_x2.pdf"... That was the problem!

Thanks for being patient and nudging me around - until I found it myself!