# \[F\] "Favourite directory" requires a trailing backslash
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-favourite-directory-requires-a-trailing-backslash/17554
**Category:** Fixed Bugs
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [January 16, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-favourite-directory-requires-a-trailing-backslash/17554 "2016-01-16T01:52:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@AFFL1CTION](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AFFL1CTION)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-favourite-directory-requires-a-trailing-backslash/17554/1 "2016-01-16T01:52:26Z")
After a fresh install of 2.73 (tried 2.73a also) on a newly built Windows 10 PC, I set "File \> Options \> Directories \> Favourite directory" to "E:\Music".
Both the "Subdirectories" and "start from this directory" checkboxes are ticked, but when I start mp3tag - the Directory it tries to read music from instead defaults to the install directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mp3tag".
If I change the "Favourite directory" setting to "E:\Music" and restart the program, it opens and starts reading tags as expected, with Directory displayed as "E:\Music".
There is likely a better way to set mp3tag's starting directory (leaving "Favourite directory" blank and using "File \> Change directory" probably), however using the method I used, I think that both "E:\Music" and "E:\Music" in the "Favourite directory" field should produce the same results.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2016, 9:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-favourite-directory-requires-a-trailing-backslash/17554/2 "2016-01-16T09:07:52Z")
> [@AFFL1CTION](#):
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> ... If I change the "Favourite directory" setting to "E:\Music" and restart the program, it opens and starts reading tags as expected, with Directory displayed as "E:\Music". ...
The optional favorite setting "E:\Music" is the same as Mp3tag displays in its window header line, which looks ok for me.
Do you see the missing trailing backslash in the Tag-Panel window?
I think we have discussed this topic already, ... and I support this wish, that the current directory path string should have the trailing backslash also in the Tag-Panel window.
DD.20160116.1107.CET
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### Author:  [@AFFL1CTION](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AFFL1CTION)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-favourite-directory-requires-a-trailing-backslash/17554/3 "2016-02-05T22:59:10Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
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> Do you see the missing trailing backslash in the Tag-Panel window?
I've attached one screenshot showing the program after startup with Favourite directory set to "E:\Music" (blank results - reading from Program Files instead) and another screenshot showing the program after startup with Favourite directory set to "E:\Music" (correct results).
The problem isn't so much what displays in the window header line or in the Tag-Panel window; it's more the fact that the wrong directory is being read when the trailing backslash is not included in the Favourite directory setting.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2016, 9:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-favourite-directory-requires-a-trailing-backslash/17554/4 "2016-02-06T09:49:50Z")
I think I've already fixed this with the current [Development Build](http://developer.mp3tag.de) v2.73c (and forgot to document the change in the changelog).
Can you please try again with the latest version?
Kind regards
Florian
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-favourite-directory-requires-a-trailing-backslash/17554/5 "2016-02-06T14:25:28Z")
Even if I forcefully remove the trailing backslash in the path of the default directory, MP3tag adds it and therefore opens the correct folder.
Yet: the tag panel shows the same path without backslash in the field for path ...
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-favourite-directory-requires-a-trailing-backslash/17554/6 "2016-02-07T17:37:09Z")
> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Yet: the tag panel shows the same path without backslash in the field for path ...
I've changed this with v2.73d.
Kind regards
Florian
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### Author:  [@AFFL1CTION](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/AFFL1CTION)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-favourite-directory-requires-a-trailing-backslash/17554/7 "2016-02-18T11:46:19Z")
Just updated to v2.74a. Confirmed all fixed!
It's much appreciated, I just sent you some Euros for your trouble. 😉
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/f-favourite-directory-requires-a-trailing-backslash/17554/8 "2018-12-28T14:08:33Z")
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