# Old album art keeps on reappearing after being deleted

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/old-album-art-keeps-on-reappearing-after-being-deleted/18411>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 9, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/old-album-art-keeps-on-reappearing-after-being-deleted/18411 "2016-11-09T20:45:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![haseo2101](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@haseo2101](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/haseo2101)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/old-album-art-keeps-on-reappearing-after-being-deleted/18411/1 "2016-11-09T20:45:40Z")

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No matter what I do it keeps on reappearing once I return to or refresh the folder. I even tried deleting the old art, saving and then adding the new album art to once again save and it still happened ☹

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/old-album-art-keeps-on-reappearing-after-being-deleted/18411/2 "2016-11-10T04:51:57Z")

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Which program shows you the old art?  
You could check in Windows Explorer for hidden folder.jpg and albumartsmall.jpg files and delete them.

If you use a player with its own database, update the database and delete any graphics cache.

And: in MP3tag check which tag version there are in the file. If you also see APE tags in addition to the ID3 tags, then get rid of the APE tags.

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**Author:** ![haseo2101](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@haseo2101](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/haseo2101)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/old-album-art-keeps-on-reappearing-after-being-deleted/18411/3 "2016-11-10T08:42:59Z")

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I think I fixed the issue. MusicBee said the folder.jpg was not writable so I went to properties and found out that both the cover.jpg and the folder.jpg were blocked for some reason. I unblocked them and copy pasted all of the files and put them into a new folder. After adding the new folder to the problem has stopped. Thank you for your help.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/old-album-art-keeps-on-reappearing-after-being-deleted/18411/4 "2026-02-09T12:26:31Z")

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