# Alteration Request: Make MP3Tag Not Touch Files Unless It Has To

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/alteration-request-make-mp3tag-not-touch-files-unless-it-has-to/59190
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 26, 2022, 10:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/alteration-request-make-mp3tag-not-touch-files-unless-it-has-to/59190 "2022-11-26T10:19:56Z")
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### 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: [November 26, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/alteration-request-make-mp3tag-not-touch-files-unless-it-has-to/59190/2 "2022-11-26T10:27:08Z")

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Here is a similar idea:

> [@File Modified Dates updated Unnecessarily](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/file-modified-dates-updated-unnecessarily/19340):
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> I've noticed that if I have a group of files selected in the MP3Tag window and apply a change that only affects some, the Windows modified date/times for all the selected files are updated I had a few files that had an extended tag set wrong, and rather that search one at a time, I selected the whole folder and set the proper tag, expecting that only a few files would be modified Example: Copy a group of files to a temp folder (Comment field in all was blank) Apply MP3Tag to the folder a…

And a reply by the developer to the alleged bug:

> [@File resaved and date changed when do nothing](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/file-resaved-and-date-changed-when-do-nothing/43578/2):
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> see here: If you do not want anything to happen to the file, close the extended tags dialogue with Cancel.

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