topic Re: Where does batch search write temp files? in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310328#M58322 <P>Anytime! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:21:57 GMT jkat54 2017-08-30T20:21:57Z Where does batch search write temp files? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310324#M58318 <P>I am seeing this error on panels:</P> <PRE><CODE>[indexer01] Streamed search execute failed because: Error in 'BatchSearch': The search failed. Unable to write temp files to disk. </CODE></PRE> <P>Where is it trying to write? (Yes, it's Windows and I know that Windows permissions suck.)</P> Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:14:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310324#M58318 lycollicott 2017-08-30T17:14:23Z Re: Where does batch search write temp files? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310325#M58319 <P>Depends on your splunk version but usually its here or somewhere within: C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\run</P> Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:14:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310325#M58319 jkat54 2017-08-30T18:14:34Z Re: Where does batch search write temp files? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310326#M58320 <P>I think its talking about the dispatch dir though: </P> <P>C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\run\splunk\dispatch</P> Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:16:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310326#M58320 jkat54 2017-08-30T18:16:21Z Re: Where does batch search write temp files? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310327#M58321 <P>Thanks for confirming.</P> Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:52:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310327#M58321 lycollicott 2017-08-30T18:52:58Z Re: Where does batch search write temp files? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310328#M58322 <P>Anytime! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:21:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Where-does-batch-search-write-temp-files/m-p/310328#M58322 jkat54 2017-08-30T20:21:57Z