Dynamic paths

Destinations accept placeholders that are resolved when Mouzi moves a file.

Available placeholders

Placeholder	Resolves to	Example
{year}	Four-digit UTC year at move time	2026
{month}	Two-digit UTC month at move time	08
{day}	Two-digit UTC day at move time	09
{extension}	Lowercase extension without the dot	pdf
{filename}	Complete file name, including its extension	report.pdf

The date is not read from file metadata and is not the file’s creation date. Mouzi uses the current UTC date at the moment of the move.

Examples

Sort documents by move date:

Documents/{year}/{month}
→ Documents/2026/08/report.pdf

Group files by extension:

By type/{extension}
→ By type/zip/backup.zip

Create a folder named after the complete file name:

Archive items/{filename}
→ Archive items/backup.zip/backup.zip

Combine placeholders:

Media/{year}/{month}-{day}/{extension}

Relative and absolute paths

A relative destination is resolved inside the watched folder that supplied the file. This makes one global rule work across several watched folders without mixing their contents.

An absolute destination may point outside the watched folder or to another drive:

D:\Document archive\{year}

/mnt/archive/{year}/{month}

Missing directories are created automatically.