Run Rules Manually
Normally, Hazel runs rules automatically as needed. Occasionally, though, you may need to force rules to run. For example:
After you edit a rule, Hazel introduces a brief delay before running it again, but you may want it to run immediately.
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.
If rules should be running but aren’t, you may want to try running them manually as a troubleshooting step.
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:
Select the folder whose rules you want to run and choose “Run Rules Now” from the Action
menu.
Right-click (or Control-click) a folder and choose “Run Rules Now” from the contextual menu.
With the Hazel status menu
enabled, choose “Run Rules” >
Folder Name
from that menu.
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