Since Hazel has a lot of rules, it stands to reason that you can do a lot with it. For instance, I have Hazel giving orange labels to all of my pictures, and moving my Hazel screenshots to their own folder. The rules process in order, so if you want to give everything blue labels, and then move pictures to a folder, and then move everything else to your desktop, Hazel can do that. You can have lots of rules for a folder, or one or two multipart rules, or any combination thereof. Those options are just for individual rules. And when Hazel does empty the trash, there are options for a normal or secure deletion. You can even set it to ignore files bigger than the desired Trash size, or delete them immediately. You can also handle Trash by size, and have Hazel take out the garbage whenever it grows to a certain size. For the first, Hazel will look at the files in your Trash and delete any that have been there for longer than the length of time you specify (one day, one week, etc.). Hazel can watch your Trash in two ways: time, and size. I think the Trash features alone are nearly worth the price of the software. Hazel has two parts: The file and folder rules (the main part of Hazel), and the trash rules the prefPane has a section for each. Now that we've got it installed, let's dive right in. Also provided are some sample Hazel rules to get you started, but unfortunately the installation of those isn't quite as intuitive, since they have to be imported from inside the prefPane. Double-click on the pane, and you're good to go. There are a number of reasons why I love the fact that Hazel is a prefPane, ease of installation being one of them. There's a short readme with some installation instructions, and then the Hazel prefPane itself. Upon opening the disk image, you're greeted with three files and some instructional labels. Let's start at the beginning: installation. Also, an alpha build of version 2 is available more on that later.) Version 1.1.5 has recently been released and adds a few bug fixes. (A quick disclaimer: This review covers version 1.1.4. I'm concentrating more on the basic functionality for the purpose of the review, but Hazel is very flexible and can probably handle most of the things you can dream up. I'll also highlight some interesting uses for Hazel, including a way to use it as a digital recording system. The interview has some interesting tidbits and sneak previews in it, a few of which I'll touch on later in the review.įor the review today, I'll be giving Hazel the white-glove treatment and putting the utility through its paces. Hazel also happens to be written by Noodlesoft's Paul Kim, who we interviewed in February. Hazel is billed as a "personal housekeeper" for your files and folders-it's happy to organize your files and clean up your digital detritus. Spring is all about cleaning, so on the review slate today is Hazel for OS X.
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