# Edit filenames in place

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/edit-filenames-in-place/1043>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [December 26, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/edit-filenames-in-place/1043 "2019-12-26T18:43:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/edit-filenames-in-place/1043/2 "2019-12-26T19:02:07Z")

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No, that’s not really possible exactly the way you’re asking for it. Beets doesn’t really see a distinction between the “folder name” and the “file name”—they’re all just part of the path, which is generated by beets’s naming rules.

How exactly is your directory structure currently set up? It might be worth pondering whether it can be replicated using beets’s rule-based generation strategies.

This thread asked a similar question:

> [@Keeping source/original folder name](https://discourse.beets.io/t/keeping-source-original-folder-name/308):
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> I know this probably isn’t the primary usage for beets, but I’m trying to re-organize my music collection. I got beets setup and it’s pretty awesome, but one of the major things I want, that hasn’t happened and I would love to automate, is moving all of the albums from one big folder (like I have now) into something like: Root –Artist –Album –Album –Album –Album This is easily done, but what I want is to keep the original folder naming convention for the Album section, so like the followi…

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