# Feature Request: Partial Re-Read / Refresh on Directory w/Right Click
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-partial-re-read-refresh-on-directory-w-right-click/47900
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 17, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-partial-re-read-refresh-on-directory-w-right-click/47900 "2020-02-17T20:27:35Z")
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### Author:  [@mmmann](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mmmann)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-partial-re-read-refresh-on-directory-w-right-click/47900/1 "2020-02-17T20:27:35Z")
Sometimes I'm copying files into my directory structure while waiting for mp3tag to finish reading files. With 10K music files, the process takes a minute or more. It would be handy to have mp3tag do a partial refresh / reread of a directory rather than the entire directory tree.
Suggestion: Provide an option to refresh a single directory with a right-click on an existing file's Path. Example: if I add another \*.mp3 file to C:\Music\Rock\Favorites, then right-clicking on any existing Path in that directory could provide:
-\> Refresh Favorites
-\> Refresh Rock
-\> Refresh Music
Selecting 'Favorites' would cause mp3tag to re-read / refresh just that one directory, and then the new file would show up and could be edited, etc.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-partial-re-read-refresh-on-directory-w-right-click/47900/2 "2020-02-17T20:32:02Z")
If you use the function to add a folder then you could naturally add a folder that you have already loaded - this would refresh the list and show also the added files.
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### Author:  [@mark5000432](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mark5000432)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 12:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/feature-request-partial-re-read-refresh-on-directory-w-right-click/47900/3 "2023-03-20T00:46:16Z")
My first thought for a workaround was to just run a second instance, but that appears to be a highly contested topic. Your request is the most important part of what I would need to not want multiple instances. In my comment here [Running Multiple Instances of MP3Tag - #17 by mark5000432](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/running-multiple-instances-of-mp3tag/13220/17) I proposed something similar, that I hope would be useful to more than just me.