# Moving Only the Specified Track?
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-only-the-specified-track/67142
**Category:** Mac
**Created:** [January 14, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-only-the-specified-track/67142 "2025-01-14T12:56:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@josephzitt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/josephzitt)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-only-the-specified-track/67142/1 "2025-01-14T12:56:15Z")
By default, when I use an action to move a file into a new directory, it moves everything in the file's current directory with it. In most cases, this is good. However, such as when I'm renaming and moving a single MP3 from my Downloads directory, this is kind of catastrophic moving everything else that happens to also be in the directory with it.
Is there something that I can put into an action to tell it to move _only_ the file or files listed in the MP3TAG main pane?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-only-the-specified-track/67142/2 "2025-01-14T13:32:15Z")
> [@josephzitt](#):
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> when I use an action to move a file
Which action is that? Could you show us the parameters?
Also, see the documentation:
> [@Rename Files and Import Tags from Files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/rename-files-and-import-tags-from-files/51720):
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> Mp3tag provides a variety of possibilities to get tag information from parts of the filename or to rename files based on the information stored in the tag of a file. The base concept behind all converters in Mp3tag is the format string, which describes a pattern or template of a filename. A format string consists of any characters and predefined placeholders or scripting functions. Every placeholder begins with the percent sign %, followed by a tag field name and ends with the percent sign. …
and in general: if you want to move folders, rename the folder (\_DIRECTORY) , if you want to move single files, rename only the file (\_FILENAME).
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### Author:  [@josephzitt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/josephzitt)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-only-the-specified-track/67142/3 "2025-01-14T15:03:17Z")
Ah, a good point. Can I put the new directory into the \_FILENAME field? I wouldn't have thought that it could accept a directory path too.
The Actions that I have created do set the \_DIRECTORY field, so that explains that. As with so many things, it's kind of obvious after you learn it, but not necessarily before.
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-only-the-specified-track/67142/4 "2025-01-14T17:35:16Z")
You can enter a fully qualified filename which means that it may feature the full path including volume.
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### Author:  [@josephzitt](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/josephzitt)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-only-the-specified-track/67142/5 "2025-01-14T17:59:46Z")
Thanks! I created this action, "Move Files (Single Track), for the Field \_FILENAME:
`/Volumes/PublicXl/data/media/music/$if2(%ALBUMARTISTSORT%,%ARTIST%)/%YEAR% %TITLE%/01 - %TITLE%`
which now does it beautifully.
I subscribe to Peter Gabriel's Bandcamp, which releases a lot of single tracks, so this will be quite useful.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-only-the-specified-track/67142/6 "2025-02-13T17:59:55Z")
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