Hazel 5.0.4 Release Notes

New features:

• New “Treat as Path” option for text-based attributes. In “Sort into subfolder” patterns, you can now tell Hazel to treat the attribute as a path, specifying which character to use as the path separator. This is particularly useful when used in conjunction with the table feature, where you can specify a column which contains various subfolders to file things into.

User interface changes:

• Fixed various layout issues with the folder list.
• Fixed layout with the search toolbar item. Now takes into account its width when its expanded, which should address issues when using layout 3 for the main window.
• Rule actions should now take up more of the available horizontal space.
• Folder and rule lists now use the “inset” style on Big Sur.
• Fixed certain rule changes not registering.
• Fixed the active flag getting cleared when rule is saved.
• Fixed sync options not being available if the sync file is on a drive that is not available at the time.
• The feature where Hazel would ask to select a new folder if the original folder no longer exists has been added back in. Was lost in the version 4->5 transition.
• Fixed rule save/revert buttons scrolling out of view in certain cases.
• Fixed undo for enabling/disabling rules.
• With a search active, newly created/added rules will remain visible even if they don’t match the current search. Will disappear if the search text is changed and they do not match the new search criteria.
• You should no longer be able to create a new rule while the current one is unsaved.
• Alert when leaving an unsaved rule now has an option to save.
• Fixed rules not refreshing after changes to the sync settings.
• Rule status will now be brought forward whenever toolbar/menu item is invoked.
• Fixed some threading issues with Rule Status which would cause various glitches.
• Rule status should show updated file list when it is refreshed.
• Fixed file list in Rule Status not being sorted in some cases.
• Fixed crash when setting a table to use the first row for column names and the table file is empty.
• Fixed crash when using non-custom attributes as inputs to an Apple/JavaScript.
• Keyboard navigation should now work in the “Replace Text” window.
• Fixed display issues when doing “Expand All”.
• Numerous other UI fixes and tweaks.

Core changes:

• Fixed start/stop state of background process not being observed/saved between machine reboots.
• Several changes made that should address AppSweep not triggering in certain cases.
• Fixed “is among the” type conditions when used in conjunction with certain types of conditions.
• Fixed using “starts with/ends with” with a custom attribute on the left-hand side of a condition.
• Import into TV action should no longer incorrectly report an error when successfully importing into the Library.
• Various internal fixes.