# \[X\] Path handling should escape special characters but doesn't
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-path-handling-should-escape-special-characters-but-doesnt/18941
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [May 1, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-path-handling-should-escape-special-characters-but-doesnt/18941 "2017-05-01T21:27:27Z")
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### Author:  [@marcusj0015](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/marcusj0015)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-path-handling-should-escape-special-characters-but-doesnt/18941/1 "2017-05-01T21:27:27Z")
I've got an action that will move songs to my music folder based on the artist's and album name,
so it's Drive:/Music/%Artist%/%Album%/
then it renames the files to %Title%.%extension%
MP3tag 2.81 from Feb 17th 2017 just gave my an error and crashed over "Cam'Ron"'s CD "Come Home With Me"
and I think the error is that you didn't escape the apostrophe in his name.
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-path-handling-should-escape-special-characters-but-doesnt/18941/2 "2017-05-01T22:42:07Z")
> [@marcusj0015](#):
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> I've got an action that will move songs to my music folder based on the artist's and album name, so it's Drive:/Music/%Artist%/%Album%/ then it renames the files to %Title%.%extension%
> MP3tag 2.81 from Feb 17th 2017 just gave my an error and crashed over "Cam'Ron"'s CD "Come Home With Me" and I think the error is that you didn't escape the apostrophe in his name.
Who is meant by "you"? Isn't it you and yourself doing?
Read there ...
[How to remove apostrophes from titles](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/17013/3)
... and please show us the action you got.
DD.20170502.0241.CEST
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### Author:  [@marcusj0015](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/marcusj0015)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-path-handling-should-escape-special-characters-but-doesnt/18941/3 "2017-05-01T22:43:10Z")
Obviously the author of MP3tag...
But, maybe it's on my end.
Edit: Ok but that's literally his name...
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-path-handling-should-escape-special-characters-but-doesnt/18941/4 "2017-05-02T03:12:54Z")
> [@marcusj0015](#):
>
> I've got an action that will move songs to my music folder based on the artist's and album name,
>
> so it's Drive:/Music/%Artist%/%Album%/
>
> then it renames the files to %Title%.%extension%
>
> MP3tag 2.81 from Feb 17th 2017 just gave my an error and crashed over "Cam'Ron"'s CD "Come Home With Me"
>
> and I think the error is that you didn't escape the apostrophe in his name.
I just tried it with
ARTIST: Cam'Ron
ALBUM: Come Home With Me
Title: whatever
Nothing crashed.
I tried it with 2.82 and 2.81c so perhaps an update might work wonders.
As the apostrophe is a valid character for filenames, I doubt that this has to be escaped.
I wonder though what the data looks like in %extension% as this is no standard name in MP3tag for a file property.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-path-handling-should-escape-special-characters-but-doesnt/18941/5 "2018-12-28T18:51:26Z")
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