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deleting an index

a212830
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I want to change the index location on one of my dev servers. I deleted it in the gui, but now when I try to recreate it (and point it to a new location), Splunk is telling me that it already exists. Are there additional steps that need to be done?

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Use the indexes.conf configuration file to change the path instead of the ui manager.
And move the files to the new location before restarting splunk.

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