# Relative file renaming is broken.

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/relative-file-renaming-is-broken/1500
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [December 6, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/relative-file-renaming-is-broken/1500 "2004-12-06T07:04:48Z")
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### Author: ![Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/rijkstra/32/22_2.png) [@Rijkstra](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Rijkstra)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/relative-file-renaming-is-broken/1500/1 "2004-12-06T07:04:48Z")

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I have no idea when this break occurred because I have not used a file rename template like this for a while:

..\%artist%\%album%\%track% - %title%

It definitely did work at some time in the past and I used it from time to time. I thought my files had been wiped from the disk until I ran the same template on my RCA Lyra (Preview only this time!) and found this curious result:

"H:\0403 Seek-Z\Misc\Broadway Classics - 01 - Oklahoma Overture.mp3" -\>  
"C:\WINDOWS\Various Artists\Broadway Classics\01 - Oklahoma Overture.mp3"

"H:\0403 Seek-Z\Misc\Broadway Classics - 02 - The Imposible Dream.mp3" -\>  
"C:\WINDOWS\Various Artists\Broadway Classics\02 - The Imposible Dream.mp3"

...

The prebreak result would have been:

"H:\0403 Seek-Z\Misc\Broadway Classics - 01 - Oklahoma Overture.mp3" -\>  
"H:\0403 Seek-Z\Various Artists\Broadway Classics\01 - Oklahoma Overture.mp3"

"H:\0403 Seek-Z\Misc\Broadway Classics - 02 - The Imposible Dream.mp3" -\>  
"H:\0403 Seek-Z\Various Artists\Broadway Classics\02 - The Imposible Dream.mp3"

Whew! Then I found the files that disappeared from my D: drive in C:\WINDOWS

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