# WMP keeps a long list of open files - how to shorten it

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-keeps-a-long-list-of-open-files-how-to-shorten-it/40881
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**Created:** [February 21, 2018, 8:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-keeps-a-long-list-of-open-files-how-to-shorten-it/40881 "2018-02-21T08:03:30Z")
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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: [February 23, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wmp-keeps-a-long-list-of-open-files-how-to-shorten-it/40881/12 "2018-02-23T10:52:15Z")

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Whereever that came from:  
After a long time I checked the library setting for the music files.  
And guess what: all the strangely open files were there as locations to watch.  
I am absolutely positve that I did not add the folders and files to the library.  
The library in the Explorer also did not show these files and folders.  
Anyway: removing the files and folders from the "watched folders" list closed them immediately.  
Case resolved.  
(Sorry, no-one could have guessed this from the outside.)

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