Note: Hazel 6.0 requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or later.
New Features
- On-the-fly text recognition: When matching against the contents of a non-OCRed file, Hazel can perform text recognition as needed. Note that this does not save the OCR-ed text to the file. You should use a dedicated OCR program for that. You can turn off this option via the new rule options. Button is next to the note button.
- Added ability to specify password to read encrypted PDFs. Accessible via new rule options. Button is next to the note button.
- You can revert files processed by Hazel via Finder’s contextual menu. Note that this only reverts attributes on the file and will not undo effects on other apps/locations, like Music, Photos, copies to other locations or servers, etc.
- Added list custom attributes which allow you to match and store lists of items and then reassign them to other lists. Useful for things like copying tags between files.
- Support for locked files. Can now match against whether a file is locked or not. Also, a new action has been added to lock or unlock files.
- Added action to pause for a set amount of time.
- The number token in match patterns can now match numbers with thousands separators and decimals. You can likewise format numbers with the thousands separator. Any decimal values read in will be passed on to the output.
- Added formatting option to set the maximum length of an attribute. Useful for when you need to keep filenames within a certain number of characters.
- Can now reset the counter attribute for a folder via Finder’s contextual menu. The option will appear there if the folder currently has a counter from previous rename actions.
Interface changes:
- Rule interface now highlights conditions/actions which have errors when saving.
- Can now use “is/is not blank” with “Contents”. If you turn off text recognition, you can use this to determine if a file has text (i.e. has been OCRed)
- Added “Run rules now” as an available item in the toolbar. It is not shown by default but can be added.
- Folder options toolbar item now shown by default.
- New toolbar icons.
- Quick Folders are now under the new “Add App Folder” menu item (under Folders).
- “Saved Search” Quick Folders option is gone. Smart Folders are now listed under the new “Add Smart Folder” menu item (under Folders).
- When previewing a rule, the Contents field is now a scrollable text field that also allows search.
- When in preview mode, now displays the name of the file being previewed.
- When previewing a file and matching against “Contents”, the field will now autocomplete based on text in the previewed document.
- Date formatting menus use “1” or “01” instead of the actual number used by the date token. This should better illustrate the formatting options in terms of the number of digits you want to show.
- Run menu in menu bar item now shows groups with group contents contained in submenus.
- AppSweep windows should now appear at the same level as other alerts so they won’t get lost behind other windows.
- Fixed the “tail” of popover windows possibly being in the wrong place when resizing the window.
- Fixed not being able to paste rules.
- Fixed scrolling behavior with trackpad.
- Fixed missing text for contextual menu item for number formatting options.
- Numerous other UI tweaks, fixes and improvements.
Core changes:
- “Contents contain” should now be more reliable. While it still uses Spotlight, if it fails, it will fall back to using the same mechanism that “Contents contain match” does.
- Fixed matching rows in a table. Previously, even if there are multiple rows that can match, Hazel would use the first row found. This would prevent being able to narrow down the matched rows by matching against other columns. Things should now work as expected where matching against multiple columns will find the exact row you are looking for. If there happens to still be multiple row matches, the first one of those rows will be used.
- Fixed handling of paths which may be identical but are actually on different volumes.
- Various fixes.