# Suggestion about Directory Scan

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-about-directory-scan/59240
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [November 30, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-about-directory-scan/59240 "2022-11-30T02:56:07Z")
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### Author: ![Luis3232](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ea666f/32.png) [@Luis3232](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Luis3232)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-about-directory-scan/59240/1 "2022-11-30T02:56:07Z")

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Hello everyone. I think it would be useful if the program saved the initial reading of the directory. This would avoid reading the whole directory again when modifying something in a song. In addition, it would have to allow updating only that modified entry. In my case every time I open the program it reads more than 65,000 mp3. And when I modify any of them and I want to refresh the changes, it reads the 65,000 mp3 again to show me the changes in the 3 or 4 changed songs. I hope I was clear. Thanks for the work!!!

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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: [November 30, 2022, 6:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suggestion-about-directory-scan/59240/2 "2022-11-30T06:05:21Z")

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> [@Luis3232](#):
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> In my case every time I open the program it reads more than 65,000 mp3

This depends on the settings in File\>Options\>Directories.  
There you can set which folder MP3tag should read at startup. If you set that to an empty folder then MP3tag does not read any files - and you can load just those that need treatment.

> [@Luis3232](#):
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> I want to refresh the changes

Usually, MP3tag shows the changes straightaway in a session, there is no need to refresh the view.  
If you are not sure about specific files, then select them and press Ctrl-T to re-read the tags of those files.

And in general, if you switch on the library then (even though this is only a by-product) reading the data of already known, unmodified files goes much quicker.

So I think a lot can be done with a modified workflow.