# OS X drag and drop album art: I'm not able to save the file
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732
**Category:** Mac
**Tags:** bug-fixed
**Created:** [February 10, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732 "2024-02-10T16:06:43Z")
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### Author:  [@cartuxorse](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cartuxorse)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/1 "2024-02-10T16:06:44Z")
Hello, I'm trying to add album artwork to an mp3 file by dragging and dropping to the Album Art panel.
Everything works fine till I go to save my work: The "save" menu option is grayed out.
I've found a workaround but it is very time-consuming: save the album art as a local file first and then from the album art field, right-click and select "add". Navigate to the file. The panel gets populated and only then am I able to save the file.
I'm on OS X Ventura, I'm running version 1.8.13 of mp3tag.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/2 "2024-02-10T16:41:39Z")
Usually, the Save menu item should get enabled as soon as something is changed on the file and not yet saved (e.g., by navigating to a different file or deselecting the file in the File List).
Can you describe which steps you perform to add the album art? This way, I might be able to reproduce it locally.
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### Author:  [@cartuxorse](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cartuxorse)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/3 "2024-02-10T18:45:50Z")
Thanks for the quick response.
You are absolutely correct about save option being enabled as soon as something (other than album artwork) is changed
Unfortunately the artwork I've dragged in does not save at that point.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/4 "2024-02-10T19:07:54Z")
Are you dragging a file from Finder or something from another application?
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### Author:  [@cartuxorse](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cartuxorse)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/5 "2024-02-10T19:38:16Z")
I'm dragging from a webpage to the app. Maybe this not supported?
If not supported, it is a bit misleading, as the copied graphic does show up in the panel when dragged.
Thanks Florian.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/6 "2024-02-10T20:36:43Z")
It should be supported and it works here. Can you tell me which browser and ideally even the webpage you're using and I'll look into it.
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### Author:  [@cartuxorse](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cartuxorse)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/7 "2024-02-11T17:34:46Z")
Hello Florian,
Drag and drop album art works from Safari, I'll just use that instead (I was using Firefox yesterday).
I find that about 10% of my mp3s tagged and saved in your app are not displaying the artwork (either as a file icon in OS X Finder, or in Music app (formerly iTunes). Why is that and is there a fix? When I open them back up in your app, the artwork shows up.
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### Author:  [@MotleyG](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/MotleyG)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/8 "2024-02-11T17:38:50Z")
Check the file type and format. In particular progressive JPG does not behave well. Many players and even the file preview and icon often do not display.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/9 "2024-02-12T16:23:53Z")
> [@cartuxorse](#):
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> Drag and drop album art works from Safari, I'll just use that instead (I was using Firefox yesterday).
I was able to reproduce it with Firefox (I was also using Safari) and will work on supporting the pasteboard format used by Firefox during drag and drop.
Thanks for pointing! If you happen to use Firefox again, you can also right-click on any image, copy, and paste via right-click on the cover window in Mp3tag.
> [@cartuxorse](#):
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> I find that about 10% of my mp3s tagged and saved in your app are not displaying the artwork (either as a file icon in OS X Finder, or in Music app (formerly iTunes). Why is that and is there a fix?
If you can identify any common pattern, e.g., as @MotleyG pointed out, it would be very helpful to know. A fellow community member had similar issues with WAV files and identified this workaround:
> [@Art wont show up on files in finder MAC OS for wav files](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/art-wont-show-up-on-files-in-finder-mac-os-for-wav-files/62786/6):
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> SOLVED. If i drag the tagged files from mp3tag (with the art) into iTunes, the cover art marries to the file in the copied iTunes folder.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2024, 8:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/10 "2024-02-20T08:18:12Z")
I've just released Mp3tag for Mac v1.8.14 which also fixes the issue where images added from Firefox via drag and drop could not be saved.
Thanks again for reporting!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2024, 8:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/os-x-drag-and-drop-album-art-im-not-able-to-save-the-file/63732/11 "2024-03-21T08:19:12Z")
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