# \[X\] Removing double spaces
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-removing-double-spaces/5259
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [August 5, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-removing-double-spaces/5259 "2007-08-05T03:53:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@lingburg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lingburg)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-removing-double-spaces/5259/1 "2007-08-05T03:53:11Z")
Hi
I'm not sure if that's a bug or not, but here is the case:
I copied an action from here, to remove 'double spaces' to 'one space only'
The action is the following:
Field: \_ALL
Regular expression: \s{2,}
Replace matches with: " "(without quotes)
[] case sensitive
So, when I got a directory with 2 spaces, it does not replace them with 1 space only
then I duplicated the action above, but changing \_ALL to \_DIRECTORY, then it worked
so my question is, \_ALL should not include \_DIRECTORY too? Then \_ALL should apply the action as well...
If this is not a bug, just ignore it 😉
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-removing-double-spaces/5259/2 "2007-08-05T07:10:44Z")
\_DIRECTORY is not included in \_ALL.
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### Author:  [@lingburg](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lingburg)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-removing-double-spaces/5259/3 "2007-08-05T20:21:47Z")
that's confusing hehe
can you tell me what's included in \_ALL? I need to know what's the point of using \_ALL in my actions 😉
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-removing-double-spaces/5259/4 "2007-08-06T04:16:51Z")
\_ALL contains all tag fields and the filename. I know that it's a little bit irritating but I think that users more often apply actions to their tags and filenames rather on the directory name.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-removing-double-spaces/5259/5 "2018-12-28T14:20:24Z")
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