# \[X\] Rename Bug Causing tag overwrites/corruption? (v2.39m)

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-rename-bug-causing-tag-overwrites-corruption-v2-39m/6108
**Category:** No Bugs
**Created:** [January 21, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-rename-bug-causing-tag-overwrites-corruption-v2-39m/6108 "2008-01-21T14:22:52Z")
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### Author: ![astro7467](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@astro7467](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/astro7467)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-rename-bug-causing-tag-overwrites-corruption-v2-39m/6108/1 "2008-01-21T14:22:52Z")

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I have being doing a high number of Tag clean-ups and subsequently renaming. I have since subbleted on a number of files I know we tagged correctly where the tags from one of the other renamed files have overitten the files tags - this must be occuring after the file is moved/renamed as they preserve the orginal tag settings (%album%$num(%track%,2) %title%) in the rename.

The tags observed to be overwritten include: Album, Artist, Title, Track, Disc, Content Group, Genre.

I did not observe this occuring under v2.39. The rename text following:

F:\Music$if($not(%contentgroup%),\_Unknown,$validate(%contentgroup%,-))$if($not(%Album%),\_Unknown,$validate(%Album%,-))$num(%track%,2) $if($not(%Title%),\_Unknown $num($rand(),5)-$num($rand(),5),$validate(%Title%,-))

(ContentGroup is maintained via a action they utilised Band, Genre and/or Album name to group various artist albums together, eg. all the Ministry of Sounds, Now etc series):

Fundamental question: Is MP3Tag (re-)writing the tags during a rename instead of just reading? If so, why?

Can provide more info as required. Thanks.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-rename-bug-causing-tag-overwrites-corruption-v2-39m/6108/2 "2008-02-01T19:44:39Z")

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No, renaming does not modify tags of the files being renamed.

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### Author: ![Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/florian/32/5759_2.png) [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/x-rename-bug-causing-tag-overwrites-corruption-v2-39m/6108/3 "2018-12-28T14:21:11Z")

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