# Automatically overwrite all saved objects?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-overwrite-all-saved-objects/156415>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 13, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-overwrite-all-saved-objects/156415 "2018-11-13T08:40:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Balu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/balu/32/37569_2.png) [@Balu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Balu)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-overwrite-all-saved-objects/156415/1 "2018-11-13T08:40:25Z")

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Hello Elastic searchers,

this might be a silly question, but does _Management_ =\> _Kibana_ / _Saved Objects_ =\> _Import_ =\> _Automatically overwrite all saved objects?_ actually overwrite all saved objects (so there's only the ones imported after) or does it overwrite all existing saved objects (with same id/title as the ones imported)?

I'm asking because for some reason I had a misunderstanding of a feature like this with Graylog and deleted all existing GROK patterns while importing some additional ones... 🙂

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-overwrite-all-saved-objects/156415/2 "2018-11-16T04:19:56Z")

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@Bill_McConaghy - can you please explain how saved objects work in this case? ( whenever you have time )...

Cheers  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-overwrite-all-saved-objects/156415/3 "2018-12-14T04:20:03Z")

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**Author:** ![mikecote](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mikecote/32/58549_2.png) [@mikecote](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mikecote)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-overwrite-all-saved-objects/156415/4 "2019-04-01T20:31:59Z")

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Hi @Balu, the `Automatically overwrite all saved objects` feature overwrites an object in the scenario one with the same id does exist already. The feature won't delete all objects before importing.