# Update genre-dependent directory after updating genre?
**URL:** https://discourse.beets.io/t/update-genre-dependent-directory-after-updating-genre/892
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [August 25, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/update-genre-dependent-directory-after-updating-genre/892 "2019-08-25T17:48:20Z")
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### Author:  [@beetz](https://discourse.beets.io/u/beetz)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/update-genre-dependent-directory-after-updating-genre/892/1 "2019-08-25T17:48:20Z")
Files are imported to the beets database using `beet imp foo.mp3`. In my case, this triggers the [LastGenre](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/lastgenre.html) plugin to apply genre tags automatically. The imported files are stored in a directory structure based on the aforementioned genre tags (`eng/rock/artist/album/foo.mp3`)
If the genre tags are inaccurate, they can be corrected using `beet modify "foo" genre="bar"`, but how do I tell beets to also update the underlying directory structure?
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### Author:  [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/update-genre-dependent-directory-after-updating-genre/892/2 "2019-08-25T19:17:54Z")
You’ll want to use the `-a` flag to the modify command. This thread has more context:
> [@Beets doesn’t change directories after modifying metadata](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-doesn-t-change-directories-after-modifying-metadata/831/4):
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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: