# \[X\] \_ALL doesn't affect to directories
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-all-doesnt-affect-to-directories/6613
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [April 10, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-all-doesnt-affect-to-directories/6613 "2008-04-10T23:07:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@ffff1111](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ffff1111)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-all-doesnt-affect-to-directories/6613/1 "2008-04-10T23:07:26Z")
"\_ALL" doesn't affect to directories.
I need to use \_Directory.
Is this normal? 
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 7:37am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-all-doesnt-affect-to-directories/6613/2 "2008-04-11T07:37:31Z")
That's how it is supposed to be.
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### Author:  [@ffff1111](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ffff1111)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-all-doesnt-affect-to-directories/6613/3 "2008-04-11T20:13:24Z")
So.... it's not ALL.
Must of the rules for cleaning filenames, tags... are also used for cleaning directory names:
Removing spaces, changing case sensitive,replacing strings (\_ %20 ,...),....
I use more than 100actions at the same time for cleaning my files-tag-directories.
And I'm not able to find any rule than couldn't be aplied to the directories.
Personally I think it should affect to directories too.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-all-doesnt-affect-to-directories/6613/4 "2008-04-12T06:48:13Z")
> [@SKsk](#):
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> Personally I think it should affect to directories too.
When I've introduced this feature, \_ALL also included \_DIRECTORY but I've removed it very quickly after I got tons of negative feedback from other users.
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### Author:  [@ffff1111](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ffff1111)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-all-doesnt-affect-to-directories/6613/5 "2008-04-18T12:59:36Z")
> [@Florian](#):
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> When I've introduced this feature, \_ALL also included \_DIRECTORY but I've removed it very quickly after I got tons of negative feedback from other users.
And why not to create more variables?
\_ALL .... for ALL (Directory-file-tag)
\_FILE&TAG .... for Files and tags
\_FILE&DIRECTORY ....
And maybe:
\_FILENAME ..... which doesn't affect to the extension.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-all-doesnt-affect-to-directories/6613/6 "2008-04-19T11:59:06Z")
> [@SKsk](#):
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> And why not to create more variables?
> \_ALL .... for ALL (Directory-file-tag)
Because it will change the behaviour of all existing actions using this field.
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### Author:  [@ffff1111](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ffff1111)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2008, 11:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-all-doesnt-affect-to-directories/6613/7 "2008-05-31T11:49:14Z")
> [@Florian](#):
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> Because it will change the behaviour of all existing actions using this field.
OK, then use another name \_ALLTHINGS or whatever...
The name is the less important.
Just give us a new field that manages all (directories,tag and files).
I still think it would be usefull for many people
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I use your program every day. THANKS again for this great software. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-all-doesnt-affect-to-directories/6613/8 "2018-12-28T14:22:45Z")
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