# Freezes when writing more than about 8 files at once
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 24, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029 "2022-01-24T10:38:04Z")
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### Author:  [@MSchef](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MSchef)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 10:38am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/1 "2022-01-24T10:38:04Z")
With version 3.12 I still have the problem, that the programm freezes after writing a single tag (here: Artist) on multiple files. I have to kill the prog with TaskManager.
All firles have been tested with MP3Diags and MP3Val!
Any suggestions?
Help will be appreciated, thank you
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### Author:  [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 10:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/2 "2022-01-24T10:57:17Z")
What kind of files? mp3? FLAC? m4a? WAV?
Where do you write this files? Locally on your internal SSD? On a external USB drive? On a network attached storage?
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### Author:  [@MSchef](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MSchef)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 11:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/3 "2022-01-24T11:04:40Z")
simple MP3 files. Type: speech. Files are converted from .aax (audible) to mp3 with AAXtoMP3
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### Author:  [@MSchef](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MSchef)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 11:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/4 "2022-01-24T11:05:34Z")
Sorry - files lie on my local HDD
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### Author:  [@MSchef](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MSchef)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 11:07am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/5 "2022-01-24T11:07:28Z")
BTW: the problem occurs not only with these, but with every greater amount of files,
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/6 "2022-01-24T11:09:34Z")
Here is a check list:
> [@MP3Tag v2.81 Somtimes Cause Whole Computer to Freeze in Windows 10 When Trying to Add Album Art to ANY Song](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-v2-81-somtimes-cause-whole-computer-to-freeze-in-windows-10-when-trying-to-add-album-art-to-any-song/18801/2):
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> Does not happen to me or my computers that is. If the whole computer freezes then I would think that it is more likely to be a problem with the explorer/desktop/OS. So check your HDD integrity, check the files' integrity (mp3val, mp3diags). Check which process run also. Check the admissions for files. Something like that.
Esp. the part "which other programs run (and may have interest in the files)?" should be taken seriously.
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### Author:  [@MSchef](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MSchef)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 11:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/7 "2022-01-24T11:16:28Z")
Only MP3TAG freezes. I tried to move the files to a directory an my HDD with a shorter name - alas: the same failure.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/8 "2022-01-24T11:18:52Z")
which looks to me like access rights problems and simultaneous access leading to a deadlock situation. You have to spend a little more effort in this investigation as it is almost impossible to reproduce your environment over here.
Or in other words: I have manipulated 1584 files (added a date) without any problems.
Edit: found another thread - which only gave hints on how to tweak the speed of loading - but perhaps the freezing was just a temporary impression:
> [@Windows Defender - Speed of loading files in MP3Tag](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/windows-defender-speed-of-loading-files-in-mp3tag/47784):
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> In the past I already noticed that the antivirus-software of windows-defender slows down the loading speed of files in MP3Tag dramatically: At this time my third-party antivirus-software (Avast) had been gotten accidently deactivated and windows-defender activated. This time I wanted to give windows-defender a second chance, deinstalled Avast and activated the defender. The same happened as before: Mp3Tag became very slow in loading files in spite of the activated library-function. I tes…
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### Author:  [@MSchef](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MSchef)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/9 "2022-01-24T12:56:32Z")
Thanks! I have no plan to discover my problem.. Unfortunately I have to try an other tool for managing the tags..
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/10 "2022-01-24T13:04:07Z")
There are at least 2 things that can easily be checked:
is a player running at the same time that automatically watches certain folders, esp. those in which MP3tag modifies tags?
Do you use the Windows Defender and have added the exceptions?
And if all this is leads to nothing: do you run MP3tag under the same user-id under which you installed it? Do you get better results, if you run MP3tag as Administrator?
Does MP3tag alsways stop at the same file(s)?
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### Author:  [@MSchef](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MSchef)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/11 "2022-01-24T13:43:21Z")
The culprit is found: Acronis Active Protection. When dactivated MP3TAG works whithout failure!!
Thank you for all your advices!
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/12 "2022-01-24T13:47:13Z")
Thank you for not giving up. It is good to know that it is sometimes such a program that interferes
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### Author:  [@MSchef](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MSchef)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/13 "2022-01-24T14:10:13Z")
Danke! Ich habe gerade meine Unterstützung überweisen - das ist es mir Wert!
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/14 "2022-01-24T14:44:51Z")
I love it when these "protection" programs block access to programs, and don't pop up some kind of notification. How is one to know that some action is required? Seems like such a simple requirement to allow a user to - you know - use their computer.
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### Author:  [@MSchef](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MSchef)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/15 "2022-01-24T15:19:25Z")
I found the problem accidentally: when MP3tag seemed to freeze, I saw in ressource monitor, that 'System' was writing as mad with a task 'activeProtection'.
Recently I had a similar problem with MediaMonkey and suspected this programm to be faulty..
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/16 "2022-01-24T16:11:23Z")
It is good that you were able to resolve this. Still, this is frustrating when no notification message is provided by the protection software.
Now you can go on to using mp3tag for your needs!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/freezes-when-writing-more-than-about-8-files-at-once/56029/17 "2022-02-23T16:12:21Z")
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