# Updating Outdated References

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/updating-outdated-references/1307>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 26, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/updating-outdated-references/1307 "2020-05-26T15:36:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![tcurdt](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/tcurdt/32/418_2.png) [@tcurdt](https://discourse.beets.io/u/tcurdt)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/updating-outdated-references/1307/1 "2020-05-26T15:36:45Z")

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After an in-place import (no moving of files) I have changed a few album directories etc. Do I have to manually re-import those directories? Or is there a “check what is gone or has changed” import mode that I haven’t found yet?

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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**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/updating-outdated-references/1307/2 "2020-05-27T01:56:40Z")

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Yo! There’s nothing that does exactly what you want, but `beet update` does part of it. (It notices deleted files and reads new metadata.)

Tracking _moved_ files, unfortunately, would be really hard—perhaps for obvious reasons.