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is there an app for monitoring folders that does the following...?

hivelan | Sep 7 2007

hi,
what i'd like is some software that would monitor the desktop and possibly other folders that I can specify and when it finds a new file (that i've just downloaded) asks me for a description of what that file is which it then adds to the files metadata.
and i'd also like it to start bothering me if the file remains there for longer that a specified period of time.

Does anything like this exist?

thanks

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hi, what i'd like is some...

Submitted by noodle on September 9, 2007 - 10:05pm.

hivelan;10269 wrote:
hi,
what i'd like is some software that would monitor the desktop and possibly other folders that I can specify and when it finds a new file (that i've just downloaded) asks me for a description of what that file is which it then adds to the files metadata.
and i'd also like it to start bothering me if the file remains there for longer that a specified period of time.

Does anything like this exist?

Yes. Hazel and AppleScripts, or Automator workflows, or shell scripts will do this for you.

I've used Hazel, for example, to watch my desktop for .webloc files (urls) dragged onto it. When it finds them, it opens up the 'get info' window for the file and puts the cursor in the 'Spotlight Comments' box so I can enter tags and/or other info in there.

And yes, you can have Hazel either send you sticky (or non-sticky) Growl alerts or label the files red (or color of your choice) if the file sits there longer than you specify.

Really. Your description of what you want is an exact description of what Hazel does.

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