# 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@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): > > 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 … and > [@Mp3tag changes name of directory](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-changes-name-of-directory/54862): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/error-renaming-files/55143)._