# 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: ![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 25, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/update-genre-dependent-directory-after-updating-genre/892/2 "2019-08-25T19:17:54Z")

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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:

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