Trash, App Cleanup and Syncing

To Create Trash Rules:

1. In the AutoFiler window, click the plus (+) button under the RuleSet table to add a new Rule Set. Give the Rule Set a name like for example "Trash".
2. Mac OS-X actually has multiple Trash folders. One in your home directoy (~/.Trash) and one on each secondary file system. (/Volumes/[your disk]/.Trashes/[your user id]). There is a special smart option you can choose to give all Trash folders the same rules. From the action menu [] under Folders select Add Smart Folders->All My Trash Folders
• You can also add individual trash folders by clicking on the plus ["+"] and selecting individual folders. Tip: The OS-X file selection dialog doesn't normally show files that begin with dot ["."] like .Trash. If you type slash ["/"] in the file selection dialog, you will be able to manually enter the name of a hidden folder like ".Trash". Snow Leopard Tip: You can press Shift-Command-. (period), and you will be able to see hidden files.
3. You may want to have the first rule to immediately remove extra large files. This allows smaller files to stay in the trash longer. Also, if you use the Purge Oldest action without a remove large file rule, then putting a file in your trash larger than your Purge rule would completely empty your trash. Click plus ["+"] to add a new rule. Name it "Delete Large". Add a condition of size is greater than 1 gigabyte. Add an action of remove file permanently.
4. Add another rule to remove the oldest files from your trash. Click plus ["+"] to add a new rule. Name the rule "Purge Oldest". Check the box "Apply Rule to Folder". Add an action to purge oldest permanently keeping the size below 2 gigabytes.
5. Instead of the above rules, or perhaps in addition to them, you could have a rule to delete files that have been in the trash a certain period of time. Click plus ["+"] to add a new rule. Name it "Delete Old". Add the condition that added to directory date is not in the last week. Add an action of remove file permanently.

To Create App Cleanup Rules:

1. In the AutoFiler window, click the plus (+) button under the RuleSet table to add a new Rule Set. Give the Rule Set a name like for example "App Cleanup".
2. Add the Application folders you wish to monitor. You can select specific folders to monitor (which for most people will be just /Applications). Or alternatively there is a special smart option you can choose to monitor all the standard Application folders (On most systems /Applications, ~/Applications and /Network/Applications). From the action menu [] under Folders select Add Smart Folders->Standard Application Folders. There is also an option All Application Folders which is all the folders on your system where applications reside.
3. Add a rule to monitor the directory. Click plus ["+"] to add a new rule. Name it "App Cleanup". Check the box Apply Rule to Folder. Add the action app clean-up. Check the box Always recheck rules
4. Many applications install in subdirectories under /Applications. So we want run the rules on subfolders. Click plus ["+"] to add a new rule. Name it "Apply to Subfolders". Check the box Apply Rule to Folder. Add the action on subfolder contents run rules current rule set. Check the box Always recheck rules.

To Create Sync Rules:

1. In the AutoFiler window, click the plus (+) button under the RuleSet table to add a new Rule Set.
2. Add to the list of folders, the folders you wish to activate syncing. For one-way syncing, add the source folder. For two-way syncing, add the source and destination folders.
3. Add a new rule. Check Apply Rule to Folder and Always Recheck Rules. Select sync as the action, and select source and destination folders. Click on Options to select two way syncing.