# Exclude/Ignor a folder in the selected directory
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exclude-ignor-a-folder-in-the-selected-directory/16922
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [May 26, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exclude-ignor-a-folder-in-the-selected-directory/16922 "2015-05-26T23:51:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jbkelly1043](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jbkelly1043)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exclude-ignor-a-folder-in-the-selected-directory/16922/1 "2015-05-26T23:51:59Z")
I am a Windows user. MP3TAG is set to catalog the contents of the My Music directory. In that directory, there is one folder (with subfolders) that I would like MP3TAG to ignore -- to not search or display. How can I do that?
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### Author:  [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exclude-ignor-a-folder-in-the-selected-directory/16922/2 "2015-05-27T00:16:13Z")
Try this filter:
NOT %\_path% HAS C:\the path\to the folder\you want\to exclude\
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### Author:  [@jbkelly1043](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jbkelly1043)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2015, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exclude-ignor-a-folder-in-the-selected-directory/16922/3 "2015-06-01T23:06:09Z")
> [@ryerman](#):
>
> Try this filter:
>
> ```
> NOT %_path% HAS C:\the path\to the folder\you want\to exclude\
>
> ```
Thank you, but I'm not familiar with filters. The path to the folder I want to exclude is:
C:\music\my music\itunes
So how is the the filter constructed, and where do I place it?
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### Author:  [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exclude-ignor-a-folder-in-the-selected-directory/16922/4 "2015-06-01T23:32:55Z")
Read the documentation to learn about filters.
[https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter)
```
NOT %_path% HAS "C:\music\my music\itunes\"
```
The filters only function one at a time and only when filters are enabled.
Mp3tag keeps a drop-down list of previously used filters
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exclude-ignor-a-folder-in-the-selected-directory/16922/5 "2015-06-02T03:35:19Z")
> [@ryerman](#):
>
> ...The filters only function one at a time ...
If you mean by that that you can only define one filter criterion then I would like to direct your attention to the AND and OR operands.
These let you combine several filter criteria, e.g.
NOT %\_path% HAS "C:\music\my music\itunes" AND %artist% IS Beatles
which would show all tracks by the Beatles which is not in the itunes folder.
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### Author:  [@ryerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ryerman)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2015, 9:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/exclude-ignor-a-folder-in-the-selected-directory/16922/6 "2015-06-02T09:22:47Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
>
> If you mean by that that you can only define one filter criterion then I would like to direct your attention to the AND and OR operands....
No, I mean that only one filter expression can be active at any time.
AND and OR combine filter criteria into 1 filter expression.
But consider the Action Group dialogue.
Here we can execute any combination of check-marked actions with one click.
There is no similar functionality to select multiple filter expressions and apply them together.
And I'm not complaining, merely explaining.