# Tag -\> Tag Always Affecting All Files in View

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-tag-always-affecting-all-files-in-view/67600
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 20, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-tag-always-affecting-all-files-in-view/67600 "2025-02-20T22:20:44Z")
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### Author: ![Reason](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/reason/32/18761_2.png) [@Reason](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Reason)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/tag-tag-always-affecting-all-files-in-view/67600/8 "2025-02-21T03:14:45Z")

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Thank you! This was the exact same problem I was having, described here:

> [@Renaming a single file to include directory renames or moves subdirectories in same folder](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/renaming-a-single-file-to-include-directory-renames-or-moves-subdirectories-in-same-folder/67286):
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> Win10x64 MP3Tag 3.28 x64 I start with my albumartist folder, which in this case contains one album in a subfolder, and two singles: E:\Music\Allman Brothers Band[1972] Eat A Peach [MP3] E:\Music\Allman Brothers Band\Allman Brothers Band - Jessica.mp3 E:\Music\Allman Brothers Band\Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider.mp3 I run my "Rename Standard" action group, which consists of two operations: Format value "\_FILENAME" %artist% - %album% - $num(%track%,2) - %title% Format val…

I did not realize I could name the directory as I wanted by using the "\_FILENAME" parameter. I've mucked up a couple of directories by not being careful, and I was resigned to just having to clean up future mistakes, but this should mitigate almost all of those errors.

So in my case, I changed it from two actions:

```auto
Format Value:
"_FILENAME"
%artist% - %album% - $num(%track%,2) - %title%
Format Value:
"_DIRECTORY"
E:\Music\%albumartist%\'['%year%']' %album% '['$upper(%_extension%)']'\

```

to one action:

```auto
Format Value: 
"_FILENAME"
E:\Music\%albumartist%\'['%year%']' %album% '['$upper(%_extension%)']'\%artist% - %album% - $num(%track%,2) - %title%

```

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