# After search & replace mp3tag didn't respond **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/after-search-replace-mp3tag-didnt-respond/62576 **Category:** Fixed Bugs **Tags:** bug-fixed **Created:** [October 28, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/after-search-replace-mp3tag-didnt-respond/62576 "2023-10-28T11:41:47Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino) #### Post date: [October 28, 2023, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/after-search-replace-mp3tag-didnt-respond/62576/4 "2023-10-28T11:59:53Z")
Connections to NAS frequently cause problems. Your observation that MP3tag works without problem with smaller amounts of files would indicate to me that there is something happening in between MP3tag and the files. And I would think this is the NAS and its indexing SW. Still, you could make sure that the files are OK (and tagging then initially with MP3tag does not guarantee that they were OK in the first place), see the linked tools in this thread: > [@How to check files for errors?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-check-files-for-errors/44633): > > It’s required and often helps to reduce support cycles to check files for errors before filing a bug report. Symptoms of erroneous files are often missing or wrong bitrate or length audible blips or skips tags seem to be sticky and cannot be removed There are some really good tools to check the files for errors, namely MP3 Diags — identifies many different issues in MP3 files Website: [http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net) Download: [MP3 Diags - Getting MP3 Diags](http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/010_getting_the_program.html#binWindows) If the font size in MP3 Diags is … and if all that does not help, I am afraid that only treating smaller amounts of files will be the workaround. See also here for NAS problems: > [@Batch editing performance issues on NAS](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/batch-editing-performance-issues-on-nas/56873): > > Hi Guys, Been a happy user of MP3Tag for a while now. Have run into a very odd problem when doing batch editing of files: I wanted to re-categorize all the music on my NAS drive - approx. 25,000 files across 7 major music genres. I do a select, grab say 500 files, mark say 50 files and change the Genre to e.g. Classical. First batch fine - takes about 15 seconds or so for 50 files. The next 2-5 batch same thing, and then - while still working on files in the same sub-dir - all tag writing s… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/after-search-replace-mp3tag-didnt-respond/62576)._