# 4000+ FLAC Tags Disappeared Overnite--Please Help!
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4000-flac-tags-disappeared-overnite-please-help/2662
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 22, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4000-flac-tags-disappeared-overnite-please-help/2662 "2005-12-22T03:48:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@M3Rocket](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/M3Rocket)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4000-flac-tags-disappeared-overnite-please-help/2662/1 "2005-12-22T03:48:37Z")
Benn archiving my CD collection over the last month, and had over 4,000 songs done (in FLAC) and tagged with MP3Tag 2.34a. Well, that was yesterday. Today, the tags for **all of them** have disappeared! Can anyone help me recover the tags?
I downloaded the dev 2.34e and installed that just in case, and the tags are still all gone! But I am able to re-tag the files--I tested this on one album, and it seemed to work fine?
I am about to pull my hair out--the careful tagging represented a HUGE amount of time I spent archiving. And I'm less than a third done, and everything is put on hold till I can figure out whether to continue using MP3Tag ☹
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### Author:  [@M3Rocket](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/M3Rocket)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4000-flac-tags-disappeared-overnite-please-help/2662/2 "2005-12-22T05:11:31Z")
Fixed it! It was a permissions problem--the tags didn't show because I had changed my mapping and login. Aargh--it would be easier if MP3Tag simply alerted the user that it can't read the file rather than display the file list without the tags.
But all is well now that I figured it out... 🕶
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/4000-flac-tags-disappeared-overnite-please-help/2662/3 "2026-02-09T12:19:34Z")