# cutadapt / trim-paired / option "front" and "adapter"

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/cutadapt-trim-paired-option-front-and-adapter/21372
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** cutadapt
**Created:** [November 17, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/cutadapt-trim-paired-option-front-and-adapter/21372 "2021-11-17T14:45:56Z")
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### Author: ![Keegan-Evans](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/keegan-evans/32/10422_2.png) [@Keegan-Evans](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Keegan-Evans)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/cutadapt-trim-paired-option-front-and-adapter/21372/14 "2021-11-29T18:43:26Z")

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@JeremyTournayre,

I think your two-step solution is the correct one! Ideally this would not need to be the case, but Cutadapt can tend to need to be told _exactly_ what to do, and in your case it seems to have to be told in two separate steps. You can see the same thing occurring in [this recent post](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/its-cutadapt-trimming-of-primer-and-reverse-complement-of-the-reverse-primer/21344/15) and the [referenced, older post](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/cut-adapt-trim-paired-different-results-when-primers-separate-vs-linked/18734).

Unfortunately we are not the developers of Cutadapt and q2-cutadapt is just a wrapper. At this point we are going to recommend exactly what you did!

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