# Action applied to unselected tracks
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-applied-to-unselected-tracks/69511
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 23, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-applied-to-unselected-tracks/69511 "2025-08-23T14:41:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Olelko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Olelko)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-applied-to-unselected-tracks/69511/1 "2025-08-23T14:41:55Z")
Hello,
I have an instance where I want to apply the action :
“Format value : \_DIRECTORY - K:\Music\%albumartist%\%year% - %album%\”
onAlbum1 but several different albums that I did not select when applying the action get sent to the same directory as Album1 too. If I do apply the same action to Album2 only, Album1 will also be sent to Album2’s folder. Etc.
I have tried restarting the software, the computer, cleaning and defrag my HDD where K:\ is but it keeps happening and only for a handful of albums as if they were “linked” somehow. Does anyone have an idea what’s happening?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-applied-to-unselected-tracks/69511/2 "2025-08-23T14:43:58Z")
If you rename a folder, then all objects in that folder are moved to the new location.
Apply the action to rename a folder only if the number of source folders is greater or equal to the number of target folders.
If you want to move files from 1 source folder to several target folders, rename each file with Convert\>Tag-Filename or Format value for \_FILENAME
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### Author:  [@Olelko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Olelko)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-applied-to-unselected-tracks/69511/3 "2025-08-23T14:50:06Z")
I have just tried that action, and that action only to a directory where different albums were, which are not Album1 or Album2, etc. I’ve talked about in my first post and it did as it always did : create folders in K:\ (music is originally on C:\) named “%albumartist%\%year% - %album%\” just for the tracks I had selected without interfering with the directory in was on C:\ or the other tracks that are still there.
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### Author:  [@Olelko](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Olelko)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-applied-to-unselected-tracks/69511/4 "2025-08-23T14:51:32Z")
Sorry I didn’t see the second part of your comment, I will try that. Thanks!
Edit : It works very well, thanks again! I didn’t know about that and had no troubles before with the \_DIRECTORY command.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/action-applied-to-unselected-tracks/69511/5 "2025-09-22T14:51:42Z")
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