# Sidecar approach: is there any way to not break tags when doing file operations (move, rename) outside of TagSpaces? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [August 27, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/t/sidecar-approach-is-there-any-way-to-not-break-tags-when-doing-file-operations-move-rename-outside-of-tagspaces/648 "2026-08-27T19:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![TheUserOfName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@TheUserOfName](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/u/TheUserOfName)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2026, 2:27pm UTC](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/t/sidecar-approach-is-there-any-way-to-not-break-tags-when-doing-file-operations-move-rename-outside-of-tagspaces/648/2 "2026-08-28T14:27:37Z")
Just a follow up, I will switch to the File Renaming method for the time being. I was thinking about this problem and to me, in a sense, linking files to filenames statically (in the sidecar approach) hinders the interest of using files in the first place. If the tags depend on a filename which I cannot change otherwise they break, it may be easier to just embed useful information in the filename directly - and we come to the File Renaming approach. I also saw that this topic I’m writing about has been around for longer in the forum - at least four years: [Are sidecar files realy viable in practice?](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/t/are-sidecar-files-realy-viable-in-practice/22) Hopefully TagSpaces will come up with a way to deal with this shortcomings of the Sidecar approach. For the time being maybe the go-to advice is: use the File Renaming method. --- _[View the full topic](https://tagspaces.discourse.group/t/sidecar-approach-is-there-any-way-to-not-break-tags-when-doing-file-operations-move-rename-outside-of-tagspaces/648)._