# using placeholders in actions

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-placeholders-in-actions/5219
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [July 29, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-placeholders-in-actions/5219 "2007-07-29T13:22:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![gottkaiser](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/aca169/32.png) [@gottkaiser](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gottkaiser)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-placeholders-in-actions/5219/1 "2007-07-29T13:22:14Z")

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Hi,

I want to create a action to export album covers. It is not working.  
Nothing happens when I create a new action export covers and try to export them with that structure:

C:...\%\_directory%\folder

I also tried this path:

C:...\%album%\folder

I use Mp3tag v2.39 and WinXP. What am I doing wrong? Maybe you have an idea?

Thanks in advance.

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-placeholders-in-actions/5219/2 "2007-07-29T14:27:52Z")

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What kind of path is that?

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### Author: ![gottkaiser](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/aca169/32.png) [@gottkaiser](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gottkaiser)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-placeholders-in-actions/5219/3 "2007-07-29T14:48:35Z")

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Are the ... you problem? This just stands for some folders I didn't want to write.  
It colud also be this way:

C:\%\_directory%\folder

I want to put every embedded cover of an album in a extra folder with the name of the album (directory).

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### Author: ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-placeholders-in-actions/5219/4 "2007-07-29T15:05:37Z")

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So these folders don't exist?  
I guess creating new folders is not possible.

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### Author: ![gottkaiser](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/aca169/32.png) [@gottkaiser](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gottkaiser)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/using-placeholders-in-actions/5219/5 "2007-07-29T15:09:35Z")

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[This](https://docs.mp3tag.de/actions/export-cover) means placeholders can just be used for the filename?