# Clear all path history from "Directory" on the Tag Panel
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 11, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755 "2020-11-11T10:45:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Sirbu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sirbu)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/1 "2020-11-11T10:45:30Z")
It would be very helpful to have an option in File\>Options e.g. under General or Directories or Tag Panel, to clear in one go all the path history from the Tag Panel Directory box. It's tedious to have to remove each entry one-by-one using Shift+Del, especially when a long list has developed. Clicking on an entry to remove it also starts loading all the files in the directory before it can be deleted. Is there another alternative?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2020, 11:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/2 "2020-11-11T11:02:01Z")
> [@Sirbu](#):
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> especially when a long list has developed
AFAIK the list has a maximum of 10 entries.
If you do not like to see any folder history, then hide the directory field from the tag panel. You could then add further files and folders from the Windows Explorer via drag&drop and also with the functions from the File menu.
Otherwise there is not way to edit the folder list.
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### Author:  [@Sirbu](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sirbu)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/3 "2020-11-11T14:36:54Z")
The directory field in the tag panel is very useful for repeat access but even with a maximum of 10 it gets clogged up with no-longer-needed entries. And it's not a question of wanting to edit the folder list, it's just the option to delete all the entries in one go. If there is coding to add an entry, is coding to remove entries so difficult?
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### Author:  [@tor11](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tor11)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/4 "2025-02-10T13:49:08Z")
I noticed even if I Shift-Del all the items from the directory field, there are some remnant paths left in the mp3tag.cfg
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/5 "2025-02-10T14:11:29Z")
I would assume that at least the last working directory would remain. You cannot run MP3tag without one.
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### Author:  [@tor11](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tor11)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/6 "2025-02-10T14:30:18Z")
Actually it's two old directories that are already removed from the harddrive.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/7 "2025-02-10T14:42:39Z")
Before I analyze this further by trying to recreate what you're observing:
- Are you sure it's the directories history and not some other configuration setting (options are library paths from **Options → Library** , other directories from **Options → Directories** , or converters), and
- Why is this important to you?
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### Author:  [@tor11](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tor11)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/8 "2025-02-10T17:57:58Z")
I'm reasonably sure, I checked those other settings.
It is not terribly important, I am just curious why I can't find it anywhere in the actual config.
I can send you the cfg if you can have a look..
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/9 "2025-02-10T18:00:51Z")
Yes, please send the cfg and mention the folder paths that you expect to be removed in your message.
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### Author:  [@tor11](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/tor11)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/10 "2025-02-10T19:12:49Z")
[mp3tag.cfg.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/short-url/fQlWFFmM7l4PzbcchHXvvKetPdf.zip) (12.0 KB)
```auto
C:\ ____ RIPS\
C:\_DMP\
```
But looking at the file again, I realized there is probably more history and config leftovers that I may have overlooked..
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/11 "2025-02-10T20:05:11Z")
It's an internal setting to remember the last copy and move directories. It's unrelated to the path history of the directory field on the Tag Panel.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755/12 "2025-03-12T20:05:36Z")
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