# Skip reimporting folders after deleting state.pickle

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/skip-reimporting-folders-after-deleting-state-pickle/1131>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 28, 2020, 6:56am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/skip-reimporting-folders-after-deleting-state-pickle/1131 "2020-02-28T06:56:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jef](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jef/32/326_2.png) [@jef](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jef)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 6:56am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/skip-reimporting-folders-after-deleting-state-pickle/1131/1 "2020-02-28T06:56:53Z")

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During an important, I believe beets skipped over a few albums but is recognized by `state.pickle` that it’s been imported. I know it’s not been imported by running `beet list query`. One of the approaches I’ve been taking is making a backup of `state.pickle`, importing said albums, then putting back `state.pickle`.

This could be tedious, but not sure if there is a recommended approach. One of those approaches I thought of was deleting state.pickle and running `beet import .` on my collection, but that would mean that beets would reimport things I don’t need reimported.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!  
Jef

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**Author:** ![\_fe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/2bfe46/32.png) [@\_fe](https://discourse.beets.io/u/_fe)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 8:40am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/skip-reimporting-folders-after-deleting-state-pickle/1131/2 "2020-02-28T08:40:24Z")

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Hi Jef,

If I well understood your issue, you can force the (re)`import` of specific paths using the `-I` option, which switches off the `incremental` feature of the import, i.e. `beet` does not look at the pickle state.

Cheers

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**Author:** ![jef](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jef/32/326_2.png) [@jef](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jef)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/skip-reimporting-folders-after-deleting-state-pickle/1131/3 "2020-02-28T15:12:32Z")

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Wow… That makes a whole lot of sense.

Thanks @_fe!