# Copy folder

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-folder/18403>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 6, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-folder/18403 "2016-11-06T09:48:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Romano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/romano/32/7465_2.png) [@Romano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Romano)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-folder/18403/1 "2016-11-06T09:48:37Z")

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Hello,

I have made this action to copy the folder:

D:\Comedia$left(%albumartist%,1)\%albumartist%[(%year%)][- %album%][- Disc%discnumber]

My 2 questions are:

1. Can i just copy and move the folder and not just Move?
2. Can i make a script that if the genre is comedy goes to folder comedy, instead of making a script for each genre?

Something like if genre=comedy then  
D:\Comedia$left(%albumartist%,1)\%albumartist%[(%year%)][- %album%][- Disc%discnumber]

if genre= audiobooks then  
D:\Audiobook$left(%albumartist%,1)\%albumartist%[(%year%)][- %album%][- Disc%discnumber]

Thank you friends.

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**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:** [November 6, 2016, 10:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-folder/18403/2 "2016-11-06T10:55:56Z")

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> [@Romano](#):
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> I have made this action to copy the folder:
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> D:\Comedia$left(%albumartist%,1)\%albumartist%[(%year%)][- %album%][- Disc%discnumber]]

To which action-type do you refer?

> [@](#):
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> 1. Can i just copy and move the folder and not just Move?

Where do you see the difference?  
There generally is no action to **copy** files and folders, only actions to **rename** files,folders or complete paths, which in effect leads to move.

As genre is a tag-field you can naturally build a new path relying on this tagfield %genre%. Just put it at the right place.

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**Author:** ![Romano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/romano/32/7465_2.png) [@Romano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Romano)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 11:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-folder/18403/3 "2016-11-06T11:09:42Z")

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"To which action-type do you refer?"

Format

i just want it to copy the album to the new hard drive and the old files remain in the torrent drive.

"As genre is a tag-field you can naturally build a new path relying on this tagfield %genre%. Just put it at the right place."

This is a good idea thank you.

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**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:** [November 6, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-folder/18403/4 "2016-11-06T11:21:36Z")

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> [@Romano](#):
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> "To which action-type do you refer?"
> 
> Format
> 
> i just want it to copy the album to the new hard drive and the old files remain in the torrent drive.

The action type "Format Value" is no action to copy. As the name of the type says:  
The value of a tagfield is changed. You don't tell us, but I think you want to change the tagfield %\_directory%.

As I wrote there generally is no action to copy.

BTW:  
There is a % missing in the dicnumber-tag of your example.

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**Author:** ![Romano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/romano/32/7465_2.png) [@Romano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Romano)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-folder/18403/5 "2016-11-06T13:32:54Z")

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> [@poster](#):
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> The action type "Format Value" is no action to copy. As the name of the type says:  
> The value of a tagfield is changed. You don't tell us, but I think you want to change the tagfield %\_directory%.
> 
> As I wrote there generally is no action to copy.
> 
> BTW:  
> There is a % missing in the dicnumber-tag of your example.

Thank you poster.

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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, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/copy-folder/18403/6 "2026-02-09T12:26:31Z")

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