My cover arts won't export

[GawdAwful]

So I made a new action, chose "export cover to file", and tried two separate format strings for filenames. E:\MP3s\Albums%album% (but I'm sure I made a huge mistake, I'm new to this kind of thing), and $validate($trim(%BAND%) - $trim(%ALBUM%),) from this. But no matter what I do, I can't seem to get any of my tracks to convert.
I know if I right click on the album art and extract, works like a charm. But I have a lot of tracks to do this for, so I'm stuck until I get this batch action working.
Any advice?

[ohrenkino]

That thread from 2007 is not up-to-date.
%band% is now called %albumartist%

Much better is a thread from the HowTos (or FAQs):

How to export cover art to directory structure

A user on Twitter asks I want to export my whole library CD covers to a folder in which my library folder architecture will be preserved : i don't want to end up with all CD covers mixed in a single folder. I made searched but coudn't find the way to. Hope you'll help, thanks. The way to go here is with an action "Export cover to file" and a custom format string that resembles the directory structure (see this post on how to create actions in Mp3tag). The format string can be a combination …

[GawdAwful]

I noticed that one as well, I attempted a direct copy paste of the string, obviously with directory differences, but still no success. I've also been wandering through placeholder formats and the actions documentation. But for the life of me, nothing works. ID3v2.4 is fine? Or is there some other place I should look as a default directory or something?

[ohrenkino]

@GawdAwful

ID3v2.4 is fine

That should not make the difference.
Could you show us screenshots of the extended tags dialogue Alt-T, the action, a description of which filename you intend to get and which one you actually got.
And also, make sure that you actually have embedded covers with the filter
%_covers% PRESENT

[GawdAwful]

Applying the %_covers% PRESENT filter all my files still show. I can show screenshots, but my point is I have yet to even get one extracted cover at all, I sadly haven't got anything from any string that I've found or edited.
I would like to get them all in my E:\MP3s\Albums folder as jpgs with the same file names as the music files, a separate copy for each track
Here's one example track I've been testing strings with. Clearly if I select them all it just comes up for most values.
Thank you for helping btw.

[ohrenkino]

@GawdAwful

E:\MP3s\Albums

Try as
Format string: E:\Albums\%album%

You have set to export only the front covers.
Looking at the extended tags dialogue, I see the only cover not to be a front cover but to be of the type "Other".
Do not tick the option to restrict the cover type to include also the "other" types.

[GawdAwful]

wow, thank you so much. Much appreciated. I'll spend my time figuring out the specifics, just saved me so much headache.