# Suppress file move confirmation?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suppress-file-move-confirmation/52339>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 12, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suppress-file-move-confirmation/52339 "2021-03-12T12:50:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Adarma](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@Adarma](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Adarma)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suppress-file-move-confirmation/52339/1 "2021-03-12T12:50:37Z")

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I have an action: Format value "\_DIRECTORY": [%year% -]%album%[- CD%discnumber%]

When I run it, I get may popup questions:

> Are you sure you want to move this system file?  
> Thumbs.db

Even if a check the tickbox to not ask again, it still does for each folder I think.

Is there a way to prevent being asked?

This is on Win7 x64

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**Author:** ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suppress-file-move-confirmation/52339/2 "2021-03-12T14:04:45Z")

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As this is a message from the OS there is nothing that Mp3Tag can do about.  
I think the only way is to disable the image-cache in Windows.  
[https://www.sitepoint.com/switch-off-thumbs-db-in-windows/](https://www.sitepoint.com/switch-off-thumbs-db-in-windows/)  
As far as I know gpedit does not exist in Windows Home-Editions.

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**Author:** ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suppress-file-move-confirmation/52339/3 "2021-03-12T15:04:25Z")

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> [@Adarma](#):
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> Is there a way to prevent being asked?

Yep: Just let your folder know that you don't want this `thumbs.db` 😉

[https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/prevent-windows-xp-from-creating-the-thumbsdb-thumbnail-cache-files/](https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/prevent-windows-xp-from-creating-the-thumbsdb-thumbnail-cache-files/)

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**Author:** ![Adarma](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@Adarma](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Adarma)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suppress-file-move-confirmation/52339/4 "2021-03-17T16:56:50Z")

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Yeah, that works, but the files are on an external drive that gets plugged into various machines which probably don't all have that disabled.

_If_ it is using winapi, maybe an option to pass FOF\_NOCONFIRMATION would be good to add.

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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:** [March 17, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suppress-file-move-confirmation/52339/5 "2021-03-17T17:37:39Z")

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> [@Adarma](#):
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> _If_ it is using winapi, maybe an option to pass FOF\_NOCONFIRMATION would be good to add.

It's using `SHFileOperation()` and passing `FOF_NOCONFIRMATION` would also overwrite any existing files with the same names without asking.

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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:** [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/suppress-file-move-confirmation/52339/6 "2026-02-09T12:29:07Z")

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