# Ctrl-Z / Undo behaviour **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [June 12, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-z-undo-behaviour/49287 "2020-06-12T11:59:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TagIt](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@TagIt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TagIt)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-z-undo-behaviour/49287/1 "2020-06-12T11:59:31Z")
Found a bug with Ctrl-Z. If you have a list of songs, and you did add a Genre to it. Then remove by mistake the title from the edit field instead of copy it. You can undo that with Ctrl-Z The deleted title comes back. But then the previous set genre get deleted ! test flow. - Have a few tracks with just set and saved Genre. - Delete in the title in the title edit box. - Press Ctrl-Z to undo the mistake you get your title back but you lose a previous set genre. You will notice every time you press control-Z while you have selected the edit box the previous just set genres get deleted. Seems to happen when otehr edit fields are in focus to. ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-z-undo-behaviour/49287/2 "2020-06-12T14:14:30Z")
Unless you press Ctrl-S before you press Ctrl-Z, then the last thing you did was to set a new genre. The modification to delete the title has not been saved then, you see the title as it was before as the file is re-read - and that is with the old title and the old genre. ---
**Author:** ![TagIt](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@TagIt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TagIt)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2020, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-z-undo-behaviour/49287/3 "2020-06-12T17:37:52Z")
I save avery track after i did add the genre. The ctrl-Z is on the n ext track when i want to search for the correct genre and sometimes you press a wrong shortcut key (i did bind the select all, cpy and paste to special keys) I see what you mean, if you select a different track and then back to old one the title comes back. A bit extra clicks in workflow but that works to get title back. ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 6:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-z-undo-behaviour/49287/4 "2020-06-13T06:48:59Z")
So no bug any more, I think. ---
**Author:** ![TagIt](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@TagIt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TagIt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-z-undo-behaviour/49287/5 "2020-06-13T09:56:11Z")
Am still curious why ther eneed to be a ctrl-z for genre's Instead of keeping ctrl-Z for what it's used to. To undo a mistake. I would like to see ctrl-z works normal in edit fields instead of undo a genre. It's mabye not a bug anymore, but it's strange implementation of ctrl-z ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-z-undo-behaviour/49287/6 "2020-06-13T10:28:07Z")
> [@TagIt](#): > > - Have a few tracks with just set and saved Genre. > - Delete in the title in the title edit box. > - Press Ctrl-Z to undo the mistake you get your title back but you lose a previous set genre. If this is the way it has to be done then I cannot reproduce it. I still think that the basic misunderstanding is that you undo the not saved deletion of the title. In fact, as it has not yet been applied, the last undo-able action is the modification of the genre. ---
**Author:** ![AzzaAzza69](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@AzzaAzza69](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AzzaAzza69)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-z-undo-behaviour/49287/7 "2020-06-16T14:46:31Z")
I agree that the Ctrl-Z to undo a load of file operations is somewhat strange, especially as when you press it by mistake, as there is no Redo Ctrl-Y to re-apply it. Maybe, when the focus is in an edit (within the left panel), Ctrl-Z should undo the edit [if there something to undo]. Also maybe Options -\> Messages -\> Show message "[x] prior to Undo" ---
**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, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ctrl-z-undo-behaviour/49287/8 "2026-02-09T12:28:39Z")