# Is it possible to move selected tracks/files?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-move-selected-tracks-files/51648>\
**Category:** Mac\
**Created:** [January 18, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-move-selected-tracks-files/51648 "2021-01-18T20:10:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![coriander](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/71c47a/32.png) [@coriander](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/coriander)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-move-selected-tracks-files/51648/1 "2021-01-18T20:10:37Z")

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Is there a way to move selected tracks/files to a different directory, as was possible in theWindows version?

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**Author:** ![Metaman](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@Metaman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Metaman)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2021, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-move-selected-tracks-files/51648/2 "2021-01-19T12:35:50Z")

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Yes!

You can use the Action function field formatting. Choose "\_DIRECTORY" and define a format string for the destination folder. This will move all files in the source folder (mp3, flac, pdf, jpg, log, txt, ...)

Example format string to move to my NAS drive:

/Volumes/music/- Album/$left($if2(%albumartistsort%,%albumartist%),1)/$if2(%albumartistsort%,%albumartist%)/$if2(%albumsort%,%album% '['%\_bitspersample%-$div(%\_samplerate%,1000)']' '['$left(%year%,4)']'/

However I get a lot of errors from macOS about missing access rights. But this is already under investigation by Florian.

If you want to move selected music files only, you can use the rename function with included destination folder.

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**Author:** ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 10:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-it-possible-to-move-selected-tracks-files/51648/3 "2023-06-29T10:20:18Z")

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Since Mp3tag for Mac v1.8, this is now also possible via the **Copy to...** and **Move to...** commands.