# Can you grab across multiple files and compare? **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [April 3, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-you-grab-across-multiple-files-and-compare/41306 "2018-04-03T03:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mshockle](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@mshockle](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mshockle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-you-grab-across-multiple-files-and-compare/41306/1 "2018-04-03T03:29:39Z")
![multifield](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cbe20dd063c47db49d34caedbf71ee591f4bddf3.PNG) In this example I'm tagging work/movement etc. movementtotal would be the issue here. Wondering if I can somehow take this aggregate data, count the occurrences of each work and then use this to populate movementtotal in an action. Thanks. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-you-grab-across-multiple-files-and-compare/41306/2 "2018-04-03T03:43:19Z")
You can only do it partly by hand. Sort for the works, mark the equal works and apply an action: ``` Type: Format Value Field: %movementtotal% Format String: %_total_files% ``` If you want to do it without sorting and marking by hand you would have to make an export-file and later import from this export-file. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/can-you-grab-across-multiple-files-and-compare/41306/3 "2026-02-09T12:27:20Z")