# Moving several files with same name to same folder
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-several-files-with-same-name-to-same-folder/5816
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 29, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-several-files-with-same-name-to-same-folder/5816 "2007-11-29T19:58:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Rasit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rasit)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-several-files-with-same-name-to-same-folder/5816/1 "2007-11-29T19:58:05Z")
I have a medium sized music collection with a lot of duplicated music (same track but from different cd's etc.). All my ID3 tags are correct and now I want to order the files like this
%artist%\%title% - %artist%
All my files are named with different naming standards so while I have several duplicated files they don't have the same name, unfortunately they will have the same name after the reorganizing.
Right now they are all in the same map.
When I tried the format above I got quite a few "Cannot create a file when that file already exists." messages where you get the option to Abort, Retry or Ignore.
I figured that I would choose "Ignore" on all of them so all my duplicates would remain behind when all my other files would end up in the correct folders but I have so many duplicates that it will take an eternity to hit "Ignore" for all of them.
Is it possible to do a "move and rename, if this cause a duplicated file skip the file" or is there someway to suppress the message?
OS: Vista Business X64
MP3TAG ver: 2.39
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-several-files-with-same-name-to-same-folder/5816/2 "2007-11-30T19:09:22Z")
> Is it possible to do a "move and rename, if this cause a duplicated file skip the file"
> or is there someway to suppress the message?
None I know of. It would be good for that dialog to have a Do Not Ask Again checkbox.
I had a similar problem, but with the requirement to preserve duplicates. I found a workaround using on Export script creating a batch file that does the rename by copying to a new folder tree. You would use $loop,1 to eliminate the duplicates.
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### Author:  [@Rasit](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rasit)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-several-files-with-same-name-to-same-folder/5816/3 "2007-11-30T21:54:26Z")
I ended up exporting all the ID3 info to a cvs file and then parsing it with a quickly written java program renamed the files to what I wanted and then appended a incrementing number to anu duplicated files.
Now I only need to write something to find the duplicates while letting me decided what to keep and what to throw away.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-several-files-with-same-name-to-same-folder/5816/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:37Z")