# "Tag - Filename" creates a directory when artist name contains certain characters

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-creates-a-directory-when-artist-name-contains-certain-characters/49762
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 28, 2020, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-creates-a-directory-when-artist-name-contains-certain-characters/49762 "2020-07-28T12:00:22Z")
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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: [July 28, 2020, 12:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-filename-creates-a-directory-when-artist-name-contains-certain-characters/49762/2 "2020-07-28T12:15:31Z")

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The characters that you list are no invalid characters - as opposed to `?*` and some more..

Also see a similar description here where your observation was rated as "no bug":

> [@\[X\] Renaming from tags with "\\" character creates a new folder!](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-renaming-from-tags-with-character-creates-a-new-folder/6166):
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> As I said in the title: Renaming from tags with "" character creates a new folder! (wtf?) Maybe you won't consider this as a bug, but think of it! Are you sure the user pretends to create a new folder when he is just remaming his files from the title? I think not, and it's not so strange to find song titles with rare characters like that. What it should do is just skip those characters when renaming, or at least give you that option, wich would be still better, but of course the default opt…

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