# Past files that I worked on re-appears when I start new mp3tag
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/past-files-that-i-worked-on-re-appears-when-i-start-new-mp3tag/43224
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 11, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/past-files-that-i-worked-on-re-appears-when-i-start-new-mp3tag/43224 "2018-10-11T00:04:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@DropTheBeat](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DropTheBeat)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/past-files-that-i-worked-on-re-appears-when-i-start-new-mp3tag/43224/1 "2018-10-11T00:04:42Z")
Dear community,
mp3tag has been godsend to my life ever since I came across few years back. It's as good as it gets, except on flaw that I keep come accross; past files (mp3 files) appear when I start a new mp3tag session. Like, those are files that I loaded into mp3tag a year ago, yet they still appear in the session whenever I start a new mp3tag session. It's like a ghost from years ago that keep coming back. I always have to do Ctrl+A then press delete to get them off, but this is so distracting.
How can I turn this off?
I am sure this is something that other people already asked, and probably there is easy solution to this, but I just can't search it.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 6:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/past-files-that-i-worked-on-re-appears-when-i-start-new-mp3tag/43224/2 "2018-10-11T06:11:51Z")
In its standard configuration, Mp3tag loads whichever directory was loaded in the previous session.
If you want to use another fixed (and possibly empty) directory as a startup directory for Mp3tag, you can configure a favorite directory at "Options \> Directories" and enable the "start from this directory" checkbox.
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### Author:  [@DropTheBeat](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DropTheBeat)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/past-files-that-i-worked-on-re-appears-when-i-start-new-mp3tag/43224/3 "2018-10-11T06:13:51Z")
Dear Florian,
THANK YOU!!!!! I never bothered but with your help, I gotta now doate to mp3tag 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/past-files-that-i-worked-on-re-appears-when-i-start-new-mp3tag/43224/4 "2026-02-09T12:27:42Z")