How watching works

Mouzi registers a file-system watcher on each folder you configure. When a new file appears, it waits out a short grace period, confirms the file is not locked by another process, then evaluates your rules top to bottom. The first matching rule decides the destination. If no rule matches, the file stays put.

Three modes

Silent organizes continuously in the background. Manual waits until you click Clean Now, which suits people who prefer batch tidying. Paused stops watching entirely. You switch modes from the tray menu, and you can also schedule cleans at up to four fixed times per day.

Safe with live downloads

Files may appear before a browser has finished writing them. In Silent mode, Mouzi waits through a grace period and skips .crdownload, .part, .download and .tmpfiles. It also ignores zero-byte placeholders and, when lock checking is enabled, skips files that another process holds open. Manual and scheduled cleans do not wait through the grace period.

History and undo

Each successful move is written to a local SQLite history. Open History from the main window to see what moved, where and which rule fired. An entry can be undone while the file still exists at the recorded destination. Details are in the getting started guide.