# \_DIRECTORY Action under MacOS **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [April 6, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-action-under-macos/18867 "2017-04-06T19:48:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drehwurm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Drehwurm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Drehwurm)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-action-under-macos/18867/1 "2017-04-06T19:48:42Z")
I'm using Mp3Tag since a long time under Windows. It's an awesome piece of software. Now I switched to MacOS Sierra (2.81 under WineBottler). Everything works like a charm, but the action to rename the directory does not work for me. I have tried various ways of writing the path (e.g. C:... or \\?\unix...), but none of them worked. It simply returns to the main window without doing anything (also no warning). Can you please give me a hint how to write the required path setting? Many thanks, Joerg ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 3:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-action-under-macos/18867/2 "2017-04-07T03:07:11Z")
Don't you see a path in the Directory field in the tag panel? It should be easy to adapt that string. ---
**Author:** ![Drehwurm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Drehwurm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Drehwurm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-action-under-macos/18867/3 "2017-04-07T04:02:17Z")
I see a path in the tag panel: \\?\unix\Users\joerg\Music\Name of album but if I set an action to format \_DIRECTORY like the following \\?\unix\Users\joerg\Music\%artist%\%album% nothing happens. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 4:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-action-under-macos/18867/4 "2017-04-07T04:09:03Z")
I have no Mac. So all I can give are general thoughts. Anyway: I am not sure that an absolute path is such a good idea as the ? is an invalid character for Windows filenames. What about a relative path? Just %artist%\%album% ---
**Author:** ![Drehwurm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Drehwurm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Drehwurm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-action-under-macos/18867/5 "2017-04-07T04:18:43Z")
Unfortunately that does not work either. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-action-under-macos/18867/6 "2017-04-07T04:34:21Z")
Have you followed the instructions and installed the version from this link: [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/mac-osx.html](http://www.mp3tag.de/en/mac-osx.html) ---
**Author:** ![Drehwurm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Drehwurm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Drehwurm)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-action-under-macos/18867/7 "2017-04-07T04:40:07Z")
Yes I did. I used the unbundled version as I had Winebottler already installed. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 6:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/directory-action-under-macos/18867/8 "2017-04-07T06:46:10Z")
I don't know anything abou the Mac-use either. But instead of testing this with an action I would use the converter Tag-Filename and the preview-button. This should give yoiu at least some information instead of "nothing happens". ---
**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/directory-action-under-macos/18867/9 "2026-02-09T12:26:45Z")