# Moving files
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files/17406
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 28, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files/17406 "2015-11-28T17:12:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files/17406/1 "2015-11-28T17:12:39Z")
This need for a solution to this improvement of my usage of Mp3tag sprung first here: [Audacity file load bug](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/17381/6)
> [@\[X\] Audacity file load bug](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-audacity-file-load-bug/17381/1):
>
> What I want is to do is:
> a] I have files loaded to Mp3tag
> b] choose and select one [or more]
> c] click right button of the mouse
> d] select Tools in the middle of menu
> e] select something like "SEND TO FOLDER A" or "COPY TO FOLDER B" [or just push "CTRL + 1", "CTRL + 2"
> This would save me a lot of time; I've already have done it hundreds of times and will thousands of times
>
> Does this can be done with a BAT file [which I can put in Tools]?
And the solution given was this:
> [@\[X\] Audacity file load bug](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-audacity-file-load-bug/17381/1):
>
> [...]
> If you create an action (Format value) to rename the folder (\_DIRECTORY) or the files (\_FILENAME) with an absolute path, it moves the files to a new location.
And so an action like
```
Foramt value "_FILENAME": C:\TheNewFolder\\%_FILENAME%
```
works as it should
But still, could this be done somehow with Tools? So I could simply push CTRL + a digit? And by doing that also making it disappear from the list of loaded files?
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files/17406/2 "2015-11-28T17:22:47Z")
> [@zerow](#):
>
> ... But still, could this be done somehow with Tools? ...
In the Mp3tag Tools section, there you can utilize any command-line utility, which can move a file from here to there, for example the DOS command MOVE, this works for single file selection.
As an alternative method you may let create a batch command file via the Mp3tag Export section, which can support multi files selection too.
DD.20151128.1933.CET
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files/17406/3 "2016-01-20T12:43:22Z")
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> In the Mp3tag Tools section, there you can utilize any command-line utility, which can move a file from here to there, for example the DOS command MOVE, this works for single file selection.
Now that would be an unpleasant limitation
> [@DetlevD](#):
>
> As an alternative method you may let create a batch command file via the Mp3tag Export section, which can support multi files selection too.
>
> DD.20151128.1933.CET
I have no idea how to write that
For now I use the simplest and most obvious way: I have chosen to move one file to my "FOLDER B" which is located in "FOLDER A". Mp3tag do remembers this location, even if I close it and run it again,;so every next time I have only to choose either to stay in that folder or move up one level [or down]. And it also remembers a separate location for coping
This of course works best with a "single line" of sub-folders", but for my moving purposes is absolutely enough
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-files/17406/4 "2026-02-09T12:25:58Z")