# Backslashes with placeholders **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backslashes-with-placeholders/40846 **Category:** Site Feedback **Created:** [February 17, 2018, 10:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backslashes-with-placeholders/40846 "2018-02-17T10:10:48Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster) #### Post date: [February 18, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backslashes-with-placeholders/40846/3 "2018-02-18T16:04:31Z")
> [@tablerocker](#): > > Backslash is now considered not as normal but as a control character and therefore must be “escaped”. The backslash only vanishes if it is in combination with %. "D:\Music\Rock" makes no problem. This feature already causes a lot of confusion, because it is not intuitive for most users and I doubt that it will ever get. > [@\_DIRECTORY formatting issue with non alphanumeric characters](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-formatting-issue-with-non-alphanumeric-characters/40754): > > I have an action to place songs in the %artist%%album% folder, and it works ok for alphanumeric characters (lower and upper case and numbers) but not special characters like $ let alone Unicode. Here's my action: Format value: Field =\_DIRECTORY Format string = E:\Media\Music\%artist%\%album% I've tried it both with and without a trailing slash at the end of the format string, and it doesn't affect it at all. Try it yourself, Put A$ap Rocky or $uicideBoy$ in the artist field then apply the ac… And as I wrote there is a big problem with threads of the past, which were not transcribed to be correct with the new forum-software, for example: > [@How to move complete folders?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-move-complete-folders/11572): > > Hello, I was wondering if it's possible to move complete folders using mp3tag? I'd like to move all albums of a specific genre into their appropriate folder (rock albums to the "rock" folder etc), and since the mp3s are properly tagged I can easily sort the tracks by genre inside mp3tag. But then I can only move the mp3s.. I could do it manually for each folder but that would take me too much time, so I thought maybe there's an easier way? hope you can help! --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/backslashes-with-placeholders/40846)._