# Picard and beets

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/picard-and-beets/73>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [April 20, 2017, 6:25am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/picard-and-beets/73 "2017-04-20T06:25:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![juh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c4cdca/32.png) [@juh](https://discourse.beets.io/u/juh)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/picard-and-beets/73/7 "2017-04-21T12:47:55Z")

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I just try beet -AC to sort this out.

> [@Reimporting existing media](http://discourse.beets.io/t/reimporting-existing-media/27/2):
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> Great! I’m glad you’re enjoying beets. I can see how the beet move -cd command was confusing—it changed the path in your database too, which is probably not what you ever want. We should consider changing that default. In the future, until we make that change, it might be better to try the convert plugin instead. As for cleaning up the mess: the best way to rectify things, unless you have a backup of your database file before the move command, would probably be to use beet import -AC to scan t…

And I removed the unwanted files with

`beet remove -f path::^/home/juh/Musik`

Now all is consolidated.

In the future I might split the path up again, so that I can easily use certain files with my dj software in a special path. But for now I will leave everything under `~/beet/`.

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