# moving whole folders
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-whole-folders/6377
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 4, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-whole-folders/6377 "2008-03-04T05:25:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@zzzed36](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zzzed36)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-whole-folders/6377/1 "2008-03-04T05:25:46Z")
right now i have a situation where there are a bunch of drives with music that i want to consolidate to one single drive
lets say the main consolidating drive is A, and the others are B, C, D
i open up mp3tag to read drive B then shift-click a selection, right click to move to drive A
but problem: in drive B the tracks were in a folder, but when moved to drive A they are not in folder,
there is a way when every time i move i can create new folder in drive A manually, but forgive me i am lazy so i was wondering if there is a better automated way to move entire folders (whilst retaining the folder)
thank you, i did search the forum before i ask but they are mostly about tagging/renaming folders...
thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@egd](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/egd)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-whole-folders/6377/2 "2008-03-04T12:10:56Z")
windows explorer or any other file manager...
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### Author:  [@zzzed36](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/zzzed36)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-whole-folders/6377/3 "2008-03-05T03:16:03Z")
> [@egd](#):
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> windows explorer or any other file manager...
thanks for the reply i found FreeCommander [freeware 🙂]
however... it does not read the tags when you opened it up, i was hoping mp3tag would do this since i can have at view all the tags which i need to determine if a folder is ready to be moved (after they have been tagged and all), just a thought thanks for your help (really impressed by your response within 1 day!)
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/moving-whole-folders/6377/4 "2008-03-05T21:36:13Z")
You could browse in Mp3tag and open the file manager from Mp3tag as tool:
[/t/966/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/966/1)
Or if all folders are moved to the same location on drive A, you could create a bat file with the export that moves the folder of the selected file.