Normally, Hazel runs rules automatically as needed. Occasionally, though, you may need to force rules to run. For example:
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After you edit a rule, Hazel introduces a brief delay before running it again, but you may want it to run immediately.
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You may want to run rules once on a folder for which all rules are paused (see Enable, Disable, or Pause Rules ), rather than resuming the rules for that folder.
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If rules should be running but aren’t, you may want to try running them manually as a troubleshooting step.
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You may want to override Hazel’s default behavior of running an action only once on a matching file. (See Understand the Logic of Rules .) Running rules manually causes actions to apply to matching files even if they previously matched a given rule.
To manually run the rules for a given folder, do any of the following:
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Select the folder whose rules you want to run and choose “Run Rules Now” from the More
menu.
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Right-click (or Control-click) a folder and choose “Run Rules Now” from the contextual menu.
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With the Hazel status menu
enabled, choose “Run Rules” >
Folder Name
from that menu.
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