# Moving files based on tags
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files-based-on-tags/9901
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 15, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files-based-on-tags/9901 "2010-02-15T14:35:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@jim.sugarman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jim.sugarman)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files-based-on-tags/9901/1 "2010-02-15T14:35:29Z")
Does anyone have a script that will move files from one directory to another, and create a structure by Genre\Artist\Album ?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2010, 11:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files-based-on-tags/9901/2 "2010-02-17T11:19:38Z")
if you have your mp3 tags filled with genre, artist and album then use an action of the type
"format tag-field"
on the field %\_filename%
and enter as format string
%Genre%\%Artist%\%Album%
this will create the named file structure under the current working directory.
If you modify "%Genre%\%Artist%\%Album%" to an absolute path on your drive like
\music\%Genre%\%Artist%\%Album%
it will create the folders in a folder names music.
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### Author:  [@jim.sugarman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/jim.sugarman)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files-based-on-tags/9901/3 "2010-02-17T17:35:31Z")
> [@shuggie](#):
>
> Does anyone have a script that will move files from one directory to another, and create a structure by Genre\Artist\Album ?
Thanks that works. I had to add %\_filename\_ext% to keep the file name othewise I would get a duplicate file error, so my whole action is
%\_filename%
%genre%\%artist%\%album%\%\_filename\_ext%
I had been playing around and tried %\_Directory% which was moving more than the files I selected and giving all files the same directory of the file selected and ignoring their own tags.
Thanks again.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files-based-on-tags/9901/4 "2026-02-09T12:22:10Z")