# Feature request - disable field entry without any files being selected
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-disable-field-entry-without-any-files-being-selected/48981
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [May 17, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-disable-field-entry-without-any-files-being-selected/48981 "2020-05-17T12:52:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Who\_knows](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Who_knows)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-disable-field-entry-without-any-files-being-selected/48981/1 "2020-05-17T12:52:24Z")
I would like to see mp3Tag DIsable the ability to insert info into fields until at least one file is selected for editing.
I have been tagging lots of digitised LP's and after I select the relevant folder I often input all the album data in but forget to also select any file/s to apply this to.
Then when I do select all the files I want, all the info I have selected is lost and has to be re-input
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-disable-field-entry-without-any-files-being-selected/48981/2 "2020-05-17T12:55:17Z")
see here:
> [@Disable text boxes when no mp3 is selected](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/disable-text-boxes-when-no-mp3-is-selected/14229/):
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> I would like to see a feature that if no mp3 is selected in the program, all the tag editing text boxes are disabled or grayed out... there has been several cases where I thought an mp3 was selected and/or somehow got unselected during my typing and the save option is grayed out because nothing is selected... hence wasting time typing the information in when it's useless because nothing was selected and when I select an mp3, the boxes erase themselves... I think disabling or graying out the inpu…
One of the problems may be that if you disable input in the tag panel when there is no selected file that you would also not be able to set a new path to load files from.
Using the toolbar to open a folder would be less comfortable as this would not hold the history of recently visited folders - which is rather convenient if you want to switch between these.
But I am just guessing.
Still, I would not want to miss that folder-log-function.
If you have trouble to remember that you have to select files, then consider to set the option File\>Options\>General\>Automatically select files.
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### Author:  [@Who\_knows](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Who_knows)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-disable-field-entry-without-any-files-being-selected/48981/3 "2020-05-19T02:16:52Z")
Great suggestion! Thank you so much...