# "Keep moved files" not honored
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keep-moved-files-not-honored/68629
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [May 26, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keep-moved-files-not-honored/68629 "2025-05-26T23:11:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Quaraxkad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Quaraxkad)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keep-moved-files-not-honored/68629/1 "2025-05-26T23:11:37Z")
This may be intentional, but I figured I'd report it anyway. When the option "Keep moved files in file list" option is _unchecked_, then using an action to edit \_FILENAME which results in moving the file to a new folder, files are not removed from the list. I suspect this option was only intended to take effect when using Edit\>Move. There's a very old thread mentioning a similar thing but it may have been before this option was implemented.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keep-moved-files-not-honored/68629/2 "2025-05-27T04:52:02Z")
Here is a thread that explains the behaviour:
> [@Recognize files that are copied or moved](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/recognize-files-that-are-copied-or-moved/19786):
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> Yes I know: Mp3tag i not a filehandler. But it handles them anyhow and simply looses from on eyesight on a simple accounts of moving and does not care about those copied ones As for copying: it is a little of an overkill as most likely not many users would need that. But if the moving of files should be corrected then I see no problem of taking care also of duplicated files. Giving it as an option would not hurt those uninterested in them but could help the other users As for moving: that is jā¦
Could you check if that is different from what you experienced?
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### Author:  [@Quaraxkad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Quaraxkad)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keep-moved-files-not-honored/68629/3 "2025-05-27T14:16:29Z")
That thread only talks about using Edit\>Move, which does work as expected, honoring the "Keep moved files" setting.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keep-moved-files-not-honored/68629/4 "2025-05-27T14:23:11Z")
It also explains which files will still be displayed regardless of the option's setting.
You would have to check whether the files that you want to disappear can still be found in the current working directory and its sub-directories.
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### Author:  [@Quaraxkad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Quaraxkad)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keep-moved-files-not-honored/68629/5 "2025-05-27T14:51:25Z")
The files _are_ being moved out of the working directory.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keep-moved-files-not-honored/68629/6 "2025-06-19T14:51:02Z")
> [@Quaraxkad](#):
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> I suspect this option was only intended to take effect when using Edit\>Move.
Yes, it's currently only applying to files being moved via **Edit ā Move...**
> [@Quaraxkad](#):
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> using an action to edit \_FILENAME which results in moving the file to a new folder, files are not removed from the list.
Can you just use **Edit ā Remove** Del to remove those files from the File List?
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### Author:  [@Quaraxkad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Quaraxkad)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/keep-moved-files-not-honored/68629/7 "2025-06-19T15:20:30Z")
> [@Florian](#):
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> Can you just use **Edit ā Remove** Del to remove those files from the File List?
I could, sure. But I was hoping for it to be automatic, so that after I run my final action that moves the files, they are cleared from the list automatically so that there's no potential confusion over whether I've run the final action or not on that set of files.