# Beet mv mystery

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-mv-mystery/2631>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 13, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-mv-mystery/2631 "2024-09-13T14:08:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![sidcox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@sidcox](https://discourse.beets.io/u/sidcox)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-mv-mystery/2631/1 "2024-09-13T14:08:23Z")

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I’m having a problem with beet mv. I’m trying to use a modify tag to separate a subcollection of my music. I think I have the modify and path set up correctly, but _some_ of my files don’t move when I execute beet mv.

My files are on a synology fileserver and I have the directory mounted locally via nfs. I figure this is probably a permissions issue in how I am mounting the directory, but since I don’t get any error from beets I am at a loss for how to debug what the problem is.

```auto
directory: /media/dropbox/music_beets
library: /home/cox/musiclibrary.db
import:
    move: yes
asciify_paths: yes
plugins: discogs duplicates the embedart fetchart badfiles #chroma #autobpm
discogs:
    user_token: ilsaKMTMtLATbpZiLOYQPfXFzjLTBYtdvnhQqQYC
    index_tracks: no
embedart:
    ifempty: yes
    remove_art_file: yes
paths:
    default: $format/%the{%lower{$albumartist}}/$year %lower{$album}/$track $title
    singleton: $format/%the{%lower{$albumartist}}/$track $title
    comp: _music_compilations/$format/$year $album %aunique{}/$track $title
    dj:1: DJ/$format/%the{%lower{$albumartist}}/$year $album/$track $title
    albumtype:soundtrack: _music_soundtracks/$format/$year $album/$track $title

```

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**Author:** ![sidcox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@sidcox](https://discourse.beets.io/u/sidcox)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-mv-mystery/2631/2 "2024-09-13T14:10:05Z")

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Here is a clue, `beet mv` seems to “move” the same 55 files over and over again:

```auto
cox@fleroviumubuntu:/media/dropbox/_inbox_process$ beet mv
Moving 55 items (52952 already in place).
cox@fleroviumubuntu:/media/dropbox/_inbox_process$ beet mv
Moving 55 items (52952 already in place).

```

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**Author:** ![sidcox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@sidcox](https://discourse.beets.io/u/sidcox)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-mv-mystery/2631/3 "2024-09-18T17:10:23Z")

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Looking at my permissions everything is 777 so should work. Should I just be running beets directly on the synology instead of using NFS?

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**Author:** ![sidcox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@sidcox](https://discourse.beets.io/u/sidcox)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 5:16pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-mv-mystery/2631/4 "2024-09-18T17:16:30Z")

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Ok removing the path configuration line and runing `beet mv` seems to have put everything back into my main directory structure. Still not sure why I wasn’t able to move everything. I am going to try out using the convert plugin to move everything I want with `DJ=1` and see if that works better.

```auto
directory: /media/dropbox/music_beets
library: /home/cox/musiclibrary.db
import:
    move: yes
asciify_paths: yes
plugins: discogs duplicates the embedart fetchart badfiles autobpm edit fromfilename #chroma
discogs:
    user_token: ilsaKMTMtLATbpZiLOYQPfXFzjLTBYtdvnhQqQYC
    index_tracks: no
autobpm:
    auto: no
embedart:
    ifempty: yes
    remove_art_file: yes
paths:
    default: $format/%the{%lower{%asciify{$albumartist}}}/$year %lower{%asciify{$album}}/$track $title
    singleton: $format/%the{%lower{%asciify{$albumartist}}}/$track $title
    comp: _music_compilations/$format/$year $album %aunique{}/$track $title
    albumtype:soundtrack: _music_soundtracks/$format/$year $album/$track $title
    albumtype:other: _audiobooks/$format/%the{%lower{%asciify{$albumartist}}}/$year $album/$track $title
    albumtype:audiobook: _audiobooks/$format/%the{%lower{%asciify{$albumartist}}}/$year $album/$track $title
    #dj:1: DJ/$format/%the{%lower{%asciify{$albumartist}}}/$year $album/$track $title

```

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**Author:** ![sidcox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@sidcox](https://discourse.beets.io/u/sidcox)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-mv-mystery/2631/5 "2024-09-19T01:58:15Z")

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Still no idea what isn’t working. About half of my files don’t `beet convert` or `beet mv`. I did notice a clue with `beet fields`. For some reason I have both a lowercase and an uppercase version of the same field (though I don’t recall ever making the lowercase, both seem to query the same files).

```auto
Item flexible attributes:
  data_source
  dj
  track_alt
  DJ
  cover_art_url
Album flexible attributes:
  data_source

```

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**Author:** ![sidcox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@sidcox](https://discourse.beets.io/u/sidcox)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-mv-mystery/2631/6 "2024-09-19T02:12:13Z")

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I think the query is just not working on my tag. In my case running `beet ls DJ:1` only outputs a fraction of tracks that I tagged ☹

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**Author:** ![sidcox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@sidcox](https://discourse.beets.io/u/sidcox)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-mv-mystery/2631/7 "2024-09-19T03:29:58Z")

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huh, the case on my modify tag seems to have been the issue! for some reason there was a `dj` tag which showed up on the query and a `DJ` tag which did not. i am pretty sure I only ever used the uppercase version with `beet modify`. Anyway starting over with a new lower case tag seems to avoid the problem, though I still don’t understand what happened.

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**Author:** ![jojo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jojo/32/709_2.png) [@jojo](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jojo)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 5:43am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-mv-mystery/2631/8 "2024-09-21T05:43:19Z")

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please go to Discussions on our GitHub repo. It’smuch more lively there 🙂