# Delete entries in tag panel directory list
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 4, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270 "2023-03-04T15:34:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@MMMcK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MMMcK)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/1 "2023-03-04T15:34:31Z")
I was interested in reading this article, however, the page in the link could not be found.
I am looking for any workaround for deleting my accumulation of folders listed in my MP3Tag Directory.
Any assistance from you, Sebastian, or blackspawn, or anyone else, will be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/2 "2023-03-04T15:37:40Z")
You may realize that the answer with the link is from 2005.
I would kindly ask you to do a new internet search for a tool that deletes empty folders.
I do not think that file system maintainance is a task for a tagging program.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/3 "2023-03-04T15:40:22Z")
If links are no more valid after 17 years(!) you can try to use the "internet archive wayback machine":
> **[Delete Your Empty Folders - Reviews by PC Magazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20080913053544/https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,805015,00.asp)**
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> Here's a simple command script that will locate and dump empty folders and subfolders.
But I would also suggest (as @ohrenkino said) to google for a more up to date solution.
This is the solution to delete empty folders I use myself:
[https://www.jonasjohn.de/red.htm](https://www.jonasjohn.de/red.htm)
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### Author:  [@MMMcK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MMMcK)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/4 "2023-03-04T16:26:19Z")
Ohrenkino & Lyrics Lover - Thank you both for your input.
To clarify, I do not need to delete folders outside of Mp3tag.
I need to delete previously viewed folders that show up in the Directory field of Mp3tag.
See screenshot.
I was unsuccessful when I searched the internet for “how to delete folders in the Mp3tag Directory.
Again, I appreciate your help.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/5 "2023-03-04T16:30:18Z")
See e.g. here:
> [@Clear all path history from "Directory" on the Tag Panel](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/clear-all-path-history-from-directory-on-the-tag-panel/50755):
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> 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:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/6 "2023-03-04T16:33:07Z")
Including the part:
> [@](#):
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> ... there is not way to edit the folder list.
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### Author:  [@MMMcK](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MMMcK)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/7 "2023-03-04T16:45:53Z")
Thank you, ohrenkino for the Shift+Del tip!
That is just what I needed.
It works. See screenshot (deleted BONNIE RAITT folder).
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/8 "2023-03-04T16:53:19Z")
> [@MMMcK](#):
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> Thank you, ohrenkino for the Shift+Del tip!
Indeed, Shift+Del seems to delete the selected entry from the last 10 (max.) used folder name list in \_DIRECTORY in the tag panel.
Good to know.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 9:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/9 "2023-03-04T21:23:20Z")
I use this program as well. Lightweight and simple to use.
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### Author:  [@confucius](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/confucius)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/10 "2023-03-31T22:48:53Z")
I use "[everything](https://www.voidtools.com/)" to find and delete. As windows takes for ever to find anything, this can find as you type. Another freebee [Q-Dir](http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir/History), also Bulk Rename. These four (inc mp3tag) free programs are my must have programs! Made by people that wanted to get stuff done with ease.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/delete-entries-in-tag-panel-directory-list/60270/11 "2023-04-02T22:49:51Z")
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