Better Hazel rules for renaming & sorting TV Shows
Piotr Gajos pointed me to these excellent tutorials on MacTalk.com that convert, rename and sort downloaded TV shows into the appropriate folders using Hazel.
I didn’t want to convert anything or manually add the metadata as I use Plex to watch them rather than importing them into iTunes, so I just used the part that sorts and renames the TV shows so that they appear in Plex. I tweaked them a little to how I wanted them renaming and also made it all work using Hazel only (where the other ones also use Automator for some of the renaming).
They’re much better than the old ones I created as it’s not necessary to create separate rules for each TV show. It should recognise any TV show by the name, copy it to a folder to be renamed and then automatically sort them into their appropriate sub-folders in your TV Shows folder. It even works with new TV shows and creates the necessary folders in your TV Shows folder.
The rules aren’t available to download from the tutorials on MacTalk.com. So after remaking them myself I thought I’d export them so that other people could download them, and not have to remake them again themselves. (I’m using the latest beta of Hazel 3 on Lion. If you’re using Hazel 2 or earlier they might not work.)
To use them first download these rules and import them into Hazel for your Downloads folder.
Create a folder somewhere for copying the TV shows to, so that they can be renamed and then sorted into your TV Shows folder (mine’s called “Media Sorting”).
Double click on the “Copy TV show to Media Sorting folder” rule and change the folder at the bottom to point to your own folder for sorting the TV shows.
Then download these rules and import them into Hazel for media sorting folder.
Edit the top 2 “Sort to…” rules to make them point to your own TV shows folder.
That should be it.
If you find any TV shows with different naming formats that aren’t picked up by Hazel you should be able to create some new rules to work with them. Or let me know and I’ll see if I can get it working with them.
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