# Cannot drop folder with subfolder(s) dragged from FreeCommander
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-drop-folder-with-subfolder-s-dragged-from-freecommander/44797
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 9, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-drop-folder-with-subfolder-s-dragged-from-freecommander/44797 "2019-03-09T23:53:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Dreamer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dreamer)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-drop-folder-with-subfolder-s-dragged-from-freecommander/44797/1 "2019-03-09T23:53:29Z")
This issue is related with this topic, closed now:
[Cannot drop files dragged from a Plain View selection from FreeCommander](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-cannot-drop-files-dragged-from-a-plain-view-selection-from-freecommander/41567)
In the latest version it works good, plain view + drag&drop, (multiple) folders + drag&drop, F4 multiple files in plain view, late thanks for the fix - just this one still doesn't work:
**Drag&drop folder with subfolder from FreeCommander (using %ActivSel% parameter) to mp3tag.**
To reproduce, create folder A, create subfolder B in folder A, place some mp3 files in folder B, now drag&drop folder A to mp3tag - it doesn't work. If you drag&drop folder B to mp3tag directly, it works good.
So, if you move many folders, like 30 and 3 have some subfolders, you can miss all files in these subfolders(!).
Workaround, use a plain view (Ctrl+B) to display all files, select all files, focus any file and press F4 or drag and drop to mp3tag. (You can't select all and focus [..] item and F4, this way Notepad is opened)
Using mp3tag 2.94, FreeCommander 794 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit 1809.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-drop-folder-with-subfolder-s-dragged-from-freecommander/44797/2 "2019-03-10T09:27:33Z")
Have you enabled the option in
File\>Options\>Folders\>Subfolders
?
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### Author:  [@Dreamer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dreamer)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-drop-folder-with-subfolder-s-dragged-from-freecommander/44797/3 "2019-03-10T13:07:21Z")
Thanks, it works now, no bug, but it's not clear that it's the option for drag&drop.
Anyway, why is it disabled by default?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-drop-folder-with-subfolder-s-dragged-from-freecommander/44797/4 "2019-03-10T13:12:25Z")
I don't think that it is (it's not on my installations).
The function has nothing to do with d&d but with reading subfolders.
With that option off,
> [@Dreamer](#):
>
> you can miss all files in these subfolders(!)
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### Author:  [@Dreamer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dreamer)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-drop-folder-with-subfolder-s-dragged-from-freecommander/44797/5 "2019-03-10T13:19:08Z")
Perhaps it was changed after I installed it first time, never mind, problem solved.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cannot-drop-folder-with-subfolder-s-dragged-from-freecommander/44797/6 "2026-02-09T12:27:58Z")