# CTRL + C
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-c/17719
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 5, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-c/17719 "2016-03-05T16:05:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-c/17719/1 "2016-03-05T16:05:27Z")
I propose adding the ability to copy files via CTRL + C shortcut
Right now for selected files you have to select "Copy" form the right click menu; and navigate within Mp3tag into a specific folder. So if a user already has opened the destination in some other program, that is a waste of time / clicks
And what's more, once such an act of coping has occurred, the file can be pasted one more with CTRL + V. So why not make CTRL + C active in the main window of Mp3tag
Alternatively an user could have an option if CTRL + C should mean coping a file[s] or tag values of selected files[s]. Or could define such an additional shortcut
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-c/17719/2 "2016-03-05T16:54:26Z")
> [@zerow](#):
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> I propose adding the ability to copy files ...
Try to understand the main purpose of Mp3tag ...
and read there ... how the keyboard is mapped within Mp3tag ...
[https://docs.mp3tag.de/keyboard](https://docs.mp3tag.de/keyboard)
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-c/17719/3 "2016-03-09T18:16:01Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
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> Try to understand the main purpose of Mp3tag ...
Managing tags; and not file handling
But [speaking from my experience] the first without the second is incomplete
> [@DetlevD](#):
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> and read there ... how the keyboard is mapped within Mp3tag ...
> [https://docs.mp3tag.de/keyboard](https://docs.mp3tag.de/keyboard)
The description up there is somewhat false
Ctrl + Shift + C does not "copy file" - it merely opens Windows' explorer; where you can select destination for the file that is about to be copied. So to be precise it's "copy to [selection]" and not "copy selection"
"Copy to" is sometimes needed, and I would definitely leave it [especially in the right click menu]. But some kind of "C" shortcut should actually make a copy of a file into RAM, for various pasting purposes via CTRL + V
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-c/17719/4 "2016-03-10T07:55:15Z")
> [@zerow](#):
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> ... Ctrl + Shift + C does not "copy file" - it merely opens Windows' explorer; where you can select destination for the file that is about to be copied.
> So to be precise it's "copy to [selection]" and not "copy selection" ...
So we agree that a keyboard function for copying files already exists, ...
already user friendly by offering a system explorer window to support the user to find the target folder.
Additionally you want to have a copy function in Mp3tag like offered by the Windows explorer, which copies a list of selected object (files, folders) into the clipboard to paste anywhere, where such a copied or moved list is accepted by the target application.
Well, this would give Mp3tag a little bit more comfort.
In the meantime [Ctrl]+Mousedrag a selection of files from Mp3tag filelist to any folder does it.
DD.20160310.1156.CET
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-c/17719/5 "2016-03-15T20:55:55Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
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> So we agree that a keyboard function for copying files already exists, ...
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Yes
And coming to think about it, reserving CTRL + C / CTRL + V shortcut not for this but for coping of tags is more convenient. At least for me, because I do more of tagging than moving / coping of files