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Maid

Be lazy. Let Maid clean up after you, based on rules you define. Think of it as "Hazel for hackers".

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Mac
  • Linux  Some commands unsupported, such as downloaded_from. They are marked in Maid::Tools
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  • Developed by

    Benjamin Oakes

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is Maid?

Be lazy! Let Maid clean up after you, based on rules you define. Maid keeps files from sitting around too long, untouched. Many of the downloads and temporary files you collect can easily be categorized and handled appropriately by rules you define. Let the maid in your computer take care of the easy stuff, so you can spend more of your time on what matters.

Think of it like the email filters you might already have, but for files. Worried about things happening that you don't expect? Maid doesn't overwrite files and actions are logged so you can tell what happened.

Maid is inspired by the Mac OS X shareware program Hazel. Think of Maid as "Hazel for hackers".

Your rules are defined in Ruby, so simple rules are easy and difficult rules are possible. This also makes Maid a great general-purpose advanced file renaming tool.