Mail Download Folder: The folder in which Mail stores a copy of any attachment you open by double-clicking it in an email message. Like Safari, Mail uses Macintosh HD ▸ Users ▸ your-username ▸ Downloads by default, but you can change it in Mail > “Preferences” > “General” > “Downloads Folder.”įirefox Download Folder: The folder where Firefox stores downloads (Macintosh HD ▸ Users ▸ your-username ▸ Downloads by default). You can change it in Firefox > “Preferences” > “General” > “Downloads”. Transmission Download Folder: The folder where Transmission stores completed downloads. You must manually configure this to be a different location from where Transmission stores incomplete downloads, so that Hazel doesn’t operate on files before they’re fully downloaded. To do this, go to “Transmission > “Preferences” > “Transfers” > “Adding.” Check “Keep incomplete files in” and choose (or create) a folder for in-progress files. Then choose a different folder from the “Default location” pop-up menu just above it. (Don’t use “Same as torrent file,” because that doesn’t refer to a fixed folder that Hazel can track.) The Quick Folder link will then point to Transmission’s “Default location,” which is where completed downloads are kept.Ĭhrome Download Folder: The folder where Chrome stores downloads.

(As a postscript - I know that in the wider Apple universe there’s some discussion of whether automation features such as Automator will survive in the future.You can change this in Chrome > “Preferences” > “Show advanced settings” > “Downloads.” Like other browsers, Chrome uses Macintosh HD ▸ Users ▸ your-username ▸ Downloads by default. For me this is a terrific improvement, which will save me a lot of time and for which I am very grateful. Together with Hazel and DT’s Automator actions, an (unindexed) document outside a DT database can indeed be renamed and filed in the appropriate group within a DT database (note imported, not indexed) without user intervention - and all this without the need to write AppleScripts (for those of us who lack the skill). But since I had posted the above and received Christian’s reply in April 2014, I hadn’t seen any real hints of the further development I had suggested - until a week or two ago (credit ScreenCastsOnline) I was directed towards Automator. Maybe I missed an announcement somewhere. I’d like to see it work within DTPO databases (or, alternatively, I’d like DevonThink databases to be made transparent to Hazel, and malleable by it). However, for me it already works successfully within a Finder hierarchy that’s Hazel-ruled and then indexed by DevonThink. I understand the risks inherent in such a strategy.

Even better if before filing the document could be automatically renamed according to its (OCR’d) content, again following user-specified rules. I’d like to see some degree of what I’d call ‘Hazel-ification’ - that is, the ability for the user to create conditional rules that would allow the tagging and filing of documents in folders or groups within a DTPO database, without human intervention other than, if necessary, the initial dropping of the document on the Sorter or another active folder, or the use of a bookmark, or the scanning of paper.

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