# Filesize of cover after copy to and paste from clipboard
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filesize-of-cover-after-copy-to-and-paste-from-clipboard/13192
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 8, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filesize-of-cover-after-copy-to-and-paste-from-clipboard/13192 "2012-03-08T17:16:17Z")
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### Author:  [@vorticity](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vorticity)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filesize-of-cover-after-copy-to-and-paste-from-clipboard/13192/1 "2012-03-08T17:16:17Z")
Dear all,
I got very valuable tips from this Forum and used them for the mp3tag-maintenance of my collection. The problem:
I did not include all covers into the mp3-files which I want to do now. When sorting for artist I may have 10 files of the same album, five of them with cover included, five not. The easiest way to accomplish this is to copy a cover into the clipboard and paste it into those files without cover.
BIG SURPRISE: The copied&pasted file is approx. three time larger then the original file
HOW COME ?
Help highly appreciated. I do not want to waste diskspace and I would like to know ´the reason behind.
Thanks and regards, Bernd.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filesize-of-cover-after-copy-to-and-paste-from-clipboard/13192/2 "2012-03-08T18:12:38Z")
Using the clipboard transforms the format of the file into a non-compressed bitmap like BMP instead of the compressed jpg type.
So if you have alsreday covers stored in your files then the better way would be as follows:
Select all files.
Use an action (from toolbar Actions (Quick) to export the coverart without duplicates to a file %album%.jpg
Then use another action to import the covers back into the files with the filename %album%.jpg (don't keep old covers)
THis should supply covers to all tracks.
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### Author:  [@vorticity](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/vorticity)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filesize-of-cover-after-copy-to-and-paste-from-clipboard/13192/3 "2012-03-09T23:09:19Z")
Hi again,
as always: immediate, competent response - all copied, all checked, will proceed accordingly.
Thank you very much, Bernd.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/filesize-of-cover-after-copy-to-and-paste-from-clipboard/13192/4 "2026-02-09T12:23:43Z")