# Cleaning up past naming schemes

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-past-naming-schemes/12802
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 11, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-past-naming-schemes/12802 "2011-12-11T17:58:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![pine65](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@pine65](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pine65)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-past-naming-schemes/12802/1 "2011-12-11T17:58:44Z")

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I've used a ton of different, but sometimes confusingly similar naming schemes for the Tag to Filename or Filename to Tag functions. The fields now remember all of them, making auto-complete next to useless. Is there a way to clear the history for those fields aside from reinstalling mp3tag?

If that's not possible, I was thinking I should just set up actions for moving songs to my usual places and update those when necessary, but Format Value -\> \_DIRECTORY moves the whole folder. Is there a way to make it only move the music?

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-past-naming-schemes/12802/2 "2011-12-11T18:25:08Z")

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Click on the small button on the right side of the format string edit field.  
It has options to delete a single or all saved strings.

The action Format value -\> \_FILENAME can move files.

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### 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, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/cleaning-up-past-naming-schemes/12802/3 "2026-02-09T12:23:30Z")

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