# Do not use last folder at startup
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/do-not-use-last-folder-at-startup/63958
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 2, 2024, 9:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/do-not-use-last-folder-at-startup/63958 "2024-03-02T09:44:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Dirk.Roels](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dirk.Roels)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2024, 9:44am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/do-not-use-last-folder-at-startup/63958/1 "2024-03-02T09:44:02Z")
I did just an update and my friend did the same.
Now when we drag and drop a music album from our disk in mp3tag main windows; and close the application; every time we reopen mp3tag is reading that folder again and again.
Why, we do not need that folder anymore. In the older versions when you start mp3tag the main windows was empty. Even clicking on DEL (no tracks in main window anymore), closing and reopening the app is re-reading al the folders. We do not want that behaviour.
How can we fix this please????
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2024, 10:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/do-not-use-last-folder-at-startup/63958/2 "2024-03-02T10:06:33Z")
On the observed behaviour see e.g. here:
> [@How to prevent MP3Tag to automatically loading the files?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-prevent-mp3tag-to-automatically-loading-the-files/61947/3):
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> Thank you for the reaction ohrenkino. Yes, I have set D:\Inbox in the Options\>Directories and I have subdirectories option enabled. When I launch the program it starts reading thousands of files in D:\Inbox and subdirectories. I just want to start in D:\Inbox and then be able to chose a folder myself without program auto loading all the files in that location. Can this be done ?
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### Author:  [@Dirk.Roels](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Dirk.Roels)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/do-not-use-last-folder-at-startup/63958/3 "2024-03-02T10:13:52Z")
it is okay: in the latest version the setting: start with older map was enabled.
Now we set it CLEAN startup.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/do-not-use-last-folder-at-startup/63958/4 "2024-04-01T10:13:52Z")
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