# Issue deleting tags (doing something wrong)

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/issue-deleting-tags-doing-something-wrong/62306>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 6, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/issue-deleting-tags-doing-something-wrong/62306 "2023-10-06T16:07:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheThinMan](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@TheThinMan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheThinMan)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/issue-deleting-tags-doing-something-wrong/62306/1 "2023-10-06T16:07:20Z")

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When I try and delete an APE tag from a file that contains both APE and ID3v2 tags, both types of tags are deleted. However, when I click on "undo" the file is restored with the unwanted APE tag deleted and the wanted ID3v2 tag intact. So, I am getting the desired result, but the extra "undo" steps makes me think I am doing somthing wrong. I believe I have my settings correct: both APE and ID3v1 are checked under **options/tags/remove**.  
 ![image](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/7/723512bb1ef44dee2a6b02c4905cc3cb2f9adbbe.png)

Using version 3.22b

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/issue-deleting-tags-doing-something-wrong/62306/2 "2023-10-06T16:49:59Z")

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Please have a look at the section "Mpeg" - the one that you selected are affecting audio formats which are using APE tags by default (like Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, …).

To delete APE tags from mp3 files:  
Select only APE in the delete section.  
Select the files.  
Select Edit\>Cut  
Save the changes.  
This should remove only the APE tags.

You can check that with a filter  
%\_tag% HAS APE  
should lead to an empty file list.

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**Author:** ![TheThinMan](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c77e96/32.png) [@TheThinMan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/TheThinMan)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/issue-deleting-tags-doing-something-wrong/62306/3 "2023-10-06T19:21:43Z")

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That was it. I was thinking in terms of tag type, not the file/codec type and was looking in the wrong place in settings. Thanks for setting me straight.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/issue-deleting-tags-doing-something-wrong/62306/4 "2023-11-05T19:22:27Z")

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