# REQ: Open containing folder in Explorer from File List

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/req-open-containing-folder-in-explorer-from-file-list/15263
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 2, 2013, 7:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/req-open-containing-folder-in-explorer-from-file-list/15263 "2013-12-02T07:26:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Sven\_Golly](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Sven\_Golly](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Sven_Golly)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 7:26am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/req-open-containing-folder-in-explorer-from-file-list/15263/1 "2013-12-02T07:26:56Z")

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I'd love a right mouse action to open the containing folder (in Windows Explorer) of a file that's in the MP3TAG list. It would make a number of clean-up operations I do frequently a lot easier.

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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: [December 2, 2013, 8:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/req-open-containing-folder-in-explorer-from-file-list/15263/2 "2013-12-02T08:03:53Z")

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Add the following in File\>Options\>Tools  
Create a new entry  
Enter a fitting name, e.g. Explorer  
Enter the fully qualified filename, probably c:\windows\explorer.exe  
Enter as command line parameters: /e,/select,"%\_path%"  
Save this.

The function is now available in the files list context menu, submenu Tools

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### Author: ![mpacker](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/mpacker/32/406_2.png) [@mpacker](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mpacker)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/req-open-containing-folder-in-explorer-from-file-list/15263/3 "2014-10-02T18:02:01Z")

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THANK YOU !!

Best, Michael

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### Author: ![xRussianBeautyx](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/58f4c7/32.png) [@xRussianBeautyx](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xRussianBeautyx)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/req-open-containing-folder-in-explorer-from-file-list/15263/4 "2019-01-27T18:32:00Z")

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Searching the forum brought me to this old thread 🙂  
Tried on Windows 7, works perfectly.

Just to point out the `/e` option seems superfluous.

See also a documentation on: [https://ss64.com/nt/explorer.html](https://ss64.com/nt/explorer.html)