# Restore Artwork from backup?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/restore-artwork-from-backup/45544>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 27, 2019, 7:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/restore-artwork-from-backup/45544 "2019-05-27T07:22:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patch](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/patch/32/9350_2.png) [@Patch](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Patch)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 7:22am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/restore-artwork-from-backup/45544/1 "2019-05-27T07:22:14Z")

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So - looks like with the help of Florian, I've fixed my disappearing artwork issue. 🙏

Now - is there a way to restore artwork from a back-up drive? That is - can MP3Tag search on artist & title in a specified folder, and copy artwork from the backed-up file to the current file?

Otherwise, It'll be a case overwriting all of the files with missing artwork from my archive drive... Rather not do this, because it would mean losing some of my more recently added text/tags.

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**Author:** ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/restore-artwork-from-backup/45544/2 "2019-05-27T07:28:35Z")

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I'd export the cover-art via an action [Export cover to file](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/export-cover) and import it via an action [Import cover from file](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/import-cover).

Ideally, you the list of files you export from is identical to the list of files you import to and you make sure that you're using a formatstring that produces a unique filename for the exported files.

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**Author:** ![Patch](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/patch/32/9350_2.png) [@Patch](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Patch)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2019, 7:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/restore-artwork-from-backup/45544/3 "2019-05-27T07:33:48Z")

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My hero! 👍

Worked absolutely perfectly.

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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:** [June 26, 2019, 7:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/restore-artwork-from-backup/45544/4 "2019-06-26T07:33:50Z")

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