Our Verdict
As long as the Mac has store file cabinet in virtual pamphlet , those brochure have been mussy . So over the years , a variety of products have come along to help you clean those folders up . Hazelis perhaps the well know of these . But if Hazel is overkill for you , Folder Tidy(Mac App Store link ) is deserving a aspect .
Before using Folder Tidy …
… and after using Folder Tidy .
The mode Folder Tidy works is simple . You set up rules — to move all PDFs to a novel PDFs folder , say , or to move all image files to an Images pamphlet . Then you run those linguistic rule on a target folder — your background , say . Folder Tidy then applies the rules , moving all those PDFs or images from your Desktop to their assign subfolders . If you define and turn on the good rules , your Desktop — or Downloads , your exploiter folder , or any other booklet that tends towards mare’s nest — will be decent and groovy .
As I say , Hazel is one of the better known folder - maintenance public utility company , and it has a couple of apparent advantage over Folder Tidy . First , it operates on an on-going basis : While Folder Tidy only moves file when you differentiate it to , Hazel does so all the time , monitoring the folder you tell it to and unendingly moving filing cabinet according to your rules . Second , its rules are more sophisticated than Folder Tidy ’s ; you may fee it a greater mixed bag of criteria to find single file , and it ’ll perform a greater variety of actions on the file it finds .
But that ’s also what could make Folder Tidy attractive to many users : It ’s simple-minded . It comes with a long list of built - in rules — including those that will find applications , image , moving picture , music , PDFs , presentations , spreadsheets , Good Book processing files , and more . And it will do just one thing with the files those regulation find : Move them somewhere else .
you may construct your own Folder Tidy rules , but those custom rules are far more modified — or , reckon on your dot of persuasion , simpler — than what Hazel supports . you may tell those rule to find files by kind , by engagement ( created , last opened , or last modified ) , by name , or by Indian file sizing , and that ’s it . It also let you prefer to brush aside specific files or folders , create fresh folders with time - cast ( particularly ready to hand if , say , you ’re organizing a self-aggrandising batch of picture ) , and apply rules within subfolders .
One other reward of Folder Tidy over Hazel : It ’s less expensive , $ 7 in the Mac App Store versus $ 28 for Hazel .
So if you have folders that tend to get overgrown over clock time with the digital eq of kudzu , and Hazel is too much bother for you , Folder Tidy could be all the solution you need to cleanse out the locoweed .
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