# Duplicated tags in some files **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [July 30, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicated-tags-in-some-files/42509 "2018-07-30T06:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![djdizzle](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@djdizzle](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/djdizzle)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 6:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicated-tags-in-some-files/42509/1 "2018-07-30T06:47:06Z")
I have some files which have duplicated tags eg. Title\\Title I have created an action to fix this, but I believe because the backslash is a special character, it needs to be escaped. Could somebody please assist with this? [#0] T=7 F=%\_tag% 1=\\\\%dummy% ---
**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:** [July 30, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicated-tags-in-some-files/42509/2 "2018-07-30T06:56:25Z")
there is an action "Remove duplicate fields" that removes - as it says - duplicate fields like 2 fields of the type TITLE. It leaves the first it finds. If you want to check first which files may have a specific duplicate field (e.g. TITLE), try this filter: `"$if($eql($meta(TITLE,1),%DUMMY%),0,1)" IS 1` If you then want to keep the data of the duplicate fields, you may want to merge these fields with an action of the type "Merge duplicate fields". Use a different separator than the double backslash. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicated-tags-in-some-files/42509/3 "2021-01-06T14:27:57Z")
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