topic Can I continue to delete files on Splunk Free Edition in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-continue-to-delete-files-on-Splunk-Free-Edition/m-p/66880#M13428 <P>Hi, I'm currently using Splunk Enterprise Trial Edition, and I got to know that Splunk Free does not have Access control feature for it. I wonder Splunk Free would allow me to delete the log files after indexing just as like Admin with can_delete privilege? </P> Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:09:04 GMT kenknee 2011-03-24T12:09:04Z Can I continue to delete files on Splunk Free Edition https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-continue-to-delete-files-on-Splunk-Free-Edition/m-p/66880#M13428 <P>Hi, I'm currently using Splunk Enterprise Trial Edition, and I got to know that Splunk Free does not have Access control feature for it. I wonder Splunk Free would allow me to delete the log files after indexing just as like Admin with can_delete privilege? </P> Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:09:04 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-continue-to-delete-files-on-Splunk-Free-Edition/m-p/66880#M13428 kenknee 2011-03-24T12:09:04Z Re: Can I continue to delete files on Splunk Free Edition https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-continue-to-delete-files-on-Splunk-Free-Edition/m-p/66881#M13429 <P>This feature is available to the Admin user in the free edition as well.</P> <P>You should note though that the <CODE>delete</CODE> operator doesn't actually delete the log files themselves, rather it marks events in Splunk's index as deleted. Also as it only marks them as deleted rather than deleting them for real, you won't immediately recover any disk space by running <CODE>delete</CODE>. Events that are marked as deleted will however be totally removed when events are moved to cold index (think of it as archiving).</P> Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:27:28 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-continue-to-delete-files-on-Splunk-Free-Edition/m-p/66881#M13429 Ayn 2011-03-24T13:27:28Z Re: Can I continue to delete files on Splunk Free Edition https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-continue-to-delete-files-on-Splunk-Free-Edition/m-p/66882#M13430 <P>Is this true with the latest version? 6.2? I'm not able to pipe a search into the delete. It says it's deleted but if I refresh the search the data is still there. I can't check the user roles in the free version to see if I have delete access?</P> Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:53:46 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-I-continue-to-delete-files-on-Splunk-Free-Edition/m-p/66882#M13430 cpt12tech 2015-04-23T21:53:46Z