topic Re: How to clear search history? in Splunk Search https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-clear-search-history/m-p/392455#M173791 <P>Hi @louisjannett,</P> <P>I bet you are searching in the wrong directory.<BR /> Each user has it's own private search history. </P> <P>Try finding it at the following path</P> <PRE><CODE>/opt/splunk/etc/users/&lt;nameofuser&gt;/search/ </CODE></PRE> <P>Hope this helps!</P> Sun, 06 Jan 2019 16:53:51 GMT horsefez 2019-01-06T16:53:51Z How to clear search history? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-clear-search-history/m-p/392454#M173790 <P>Hi everyone,<BR /> I have a short question in regard to my search history. How can I clear the entire search history of a specific user or of all users?</P> <P>The suggested file in this post (<A href="https://answers.splunk.com/answers/6159/how-do-i-clear-my-search-history.html?utm_source=typeahead&amp;utm_medium=newquestion&amp;utm_campaign=no_votes_sort_relev">https://answers.splunk.com/answers/6159/how-do-i-clear-my-search-history.html?utm_source=typeahead&amp;utm_medium=newquestion&amp;utm_campaign=no_votes_sort_relev</A>) does not exist in my log directory. In addition, the searchhistory.log file in var/log/splunk is empty.</P> <P>Thanks in advance!</P> Sun, 06 Jan 2019 11:40:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-clear-search-history/m-p/392454#M173790 louisjannett 2019-01-06T11:40:50Z Re: How to clear search history? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-clear-search-history/m-p/392455#M173791 <P>Hi @louisjannett,</P> <P>I bet you are searching in the wrong directory.<BR /> Each user has it's own private search history. </P> <P>Try finding it at the following path</P> <PRE><CODE>/opt/splunk/etc/users/&lt;nameofuser&gt;/search/ </CODE></PRE> <P>Hope this helps!</P> Sun, 06 Jan 2019 16:53:51 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-clear-search-history/m-p/392455#M173791 horsefez 2019-01-06T16:53:51Z Re: How to clear search history? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-clear-search-history/m-p/392456#M173792 <P>Thanks! I didn't look for that directory.</P> Sun, 06 Jan 2019 16:57:18 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-clear-search-history/m-p/392456#M173792 louisjannett 2019-01-06T16:57:18Z