# \[F\] Exporting Cover to File produces too many files

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-exporting-cover-to-file-produces-too-many-files/4184
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [December 14, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-exporting-cover-to-file-produces-too-many-files/4184 "2006-12-14T15:03:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Teqnilogik](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Teqnilogik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Teqnilogik)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-exporting-cover-to-file-produces-too-many-files/4184/1 "2006-12-14T15:03:21Z")

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When using 2.37a I am getting more than just a folder.jpg file when I export cover art to file. When I exported the cover art to a folder.jpg I got the following files in the folder as well:

folder(1)  
folder(2)  
folder(3)  
folder(4)  
...and so on

Those other files do not have any extension associated with them, however, when I viewed the files in Windows I discovered they were JPEG files. So it seems Mp3tag is extracting the album art multiple times instead of just once in a folder.jpg file.

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### Author: ![Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/sebastian_mares/32/9285_2.png) [@Sebastian\_Mares](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sebastian_Mares)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-exporting-cover-to-file-produces-too-many-files/4184/2 "2006-12-14T15:25:57Z")

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Are you sure that the audio file doesn't have multiple covers stored inside the tag?

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### Author: ![Teqnilogik](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Teqnilogik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Teqnilogik)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-exporting-cover-to-file-produces-too-many-files/4184/3 "2006-12-14T15:32:41Z")

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There was only 1 album art image in those files. I just tested again with a file that Mp3tag said had 1/1 album art images and got 11 files. One folder.jpg and folder(1), folder(2), folder(3), folder(4), folder(5), folder(6), folder(7), folder(8), folder(9), folder(10). Each of the folder(#) files is the same image as the folder.jpg file.

Now Mp3tag does extract a file to a folder.jpg and I can using Windows Explorer search for all the folder() files and delete them but this didn't appear to happen in 2.36 so I figured I'd bring it to somebody's attention.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-exporting-cover-to-file-produces-too-many-files/4184/4 "2006-12-14T15:33:45Z")

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Please try this version!  
[http://developer.mp3tag.de/](http://developer.mp3tag.de/)

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### Author: ![Teqnilogik](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Teqnilogik](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Teqnilogik)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-exporting-cover-to-file-produces-too-many-files/4184/5 "2006-12-15T02:52:59Z")

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2.37c corrected the problem. Thanks.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-exporting-cover-to-file-produces-too-many-files/4184/6 "2018-12-28T13:55:44Z")

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