# Error renaming files
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-renaming-files/55143
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 17, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-renaming-files/55143 "2021-11-17T13:02:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@andrex64](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/andrex64)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-renaming-files/55143/1 "2021-11-17T13:02:56Z")
Good morning, after the last update i have this problem:
All my files are under a directory with this schema : " - 1992\name artist\album"
before the update when i rename the files I don't have any problem.
Now when i rename a file is created a new directory without the space before the "-" and all the subdirectory..
Is only my system affected or other persona have a same problerm?
I using with same problems windows 7 and windows 10.
Grazie From Italy
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-renaming-files/55143/2 "2021-11-17T13:06:49Z")
You would have to tell us
- the function with which you rename the files,
- the naming pattern that you use,
- the contents of the referenced fields of the files where you experience the behaviour.
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-renaming-files/55143/3 "2021-11-17T13:43:41Z")
> [@andrex64](#):
>
> Is only my system affected or other persona have a same problerm?
No and Yes:
> [@Whitespaces in path are wiped while renaming](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/whitespaces-in-path-are-wiped-while-renaming/54411):
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> Hello, I would like to report this problem: I use tag to filename option to organize mp3 files into folders, like this: tag-filename $left(%artist%,1)%artist%%artist% - %title% This should do this with path: from: h:\*\*\*\*\*Sort Music\pending\2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This.mp3 (notice few whitespaces in path, \*) to this: h:\*\*\*\*\*Sort Music\pending\2\2 Unlimited\2 Unlimited - Get Ready For This.mp3 But, since the new 3.09 version, whitespaces get deleted from path, and thus all files get …
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> [@Mp3tag changes name of directory](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-changes-name-of-directory/54862):
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> Hi there, Been using Mp3tag for a long time, but this is the first problem I've had with it. Lately when I convert tag-to-filename in a folder that has a leading space (to keep it at the top of the directory it is in) it deletes the space and saves the mp3's in a newly named folder. For example: if I have a folder of mp3's named "General" (where the "" stands for an empty space), after converting the mp3's I find them moved to a folder called simply "General" (with the empty space removed). Ho…
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-renaming-files/55143/4 "2021-11-17T15:21:45Z")
> [@andrex64](#):
>
> Is only my system affected or other persona have a same problerm?
This is a wanted behaviour according to the OS-specs.
But MP3Tag has not changed this consistently everywhere.
If you use the converter Tag-\> Tag or an action of the type "Format Value" for \_DIRECTORY, white-space is still written.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-renaming-files/55143/5 "2021-12-10T15:37:29Z")
> [@poster](#):
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> But MP3Tag has not changed this consistently everywhere.
>
> If you use the converter Tag-\> Tag or an action of the type "Format Value" for \_DIRECTORY, white-space is still written.
This should be now fixed with [Mp3tag v3.11f](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455).
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 5:21am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-renaming-files/55143/6 "2022-02-03T05:21:55Z")
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