# Copy/Move extra files to new path

**URL:** https://discourse.beets.io/t/copy-move-extra-files-to-new-path/901
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [August 29, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/copy-move-extra-files-to-new-path/901 "2019-08-29T10:52:46Z")
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### Author: ![clmbmb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/clmbmb/32/289_2.png) [@clmbmb](https://discourse.beets.io/u/clmbmb)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2019, 10:52am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/copy-move-extra-files-to-new-path/901/1 "2019-08-29T10:52:46Z")

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When importing I’d like to get some extra files along with the music. I usually have a cover.jpg and sometimes a “Scans” folder with images. Can beets move these too or I should do it myself?

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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: [August 29, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/copy-move-extra-files-to-new-path/901/2 "2019-08-29T13:04:59Z")

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Hello! This thread may be useful:

> [@Keeping unmatched tracks on import](https://discourse.beets.io/t/keeping-unmatched-tracks-on-import/801):
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> While importing music, I’ve realised that unmatched tracks in an album don’t seem to get copied over into the beets library when I apply musicbrainz metadata. Is there some way to apply metadata corrections, but also copy over unmatched tracks? Ideally, unmatched tracks would also get the same album-level tags applied, so that everything keeps being one album. Alternatively, what is a better workflow to keep all my tracks but get some benefit out of the MB database? As an example, I have an a…

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### Author: ![clmbmb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/clmbmb/32/289_2.png) [@clmbmb](https://discourse.beets.io/u/clmbmb)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/copy-move-extra-files-to-new-path/901/3 "2019-08-29T13:13:11Z")

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Great! beets-extrafiles is exactly what I need!
