# Beets doesn’t change directories after modifying metadata

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-doesn-t-change-directories-after-modifying-metadata/831>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-doesn-t-change-directories-after-modifying-metadata/831 "2019-07-11T20:35:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-doesn-t-change-directories-after-modifying-metadata/831/4 "2019-07-11T21:41:40Z")

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Got it. Can you please try using `beet modify -a` when modifying album-level fields like `albumartist`? See further discussion here:

> <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/561>

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