# Can not disable \_all field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-not-disable-all-field/188673>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 3, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-not-disable-all-field/188673 "2019-07-03T09:44:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![yeziblo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/74df32/32.png) [@yeziblo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yeziblo)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-not-disable-all-field/188673/1 "2019-07-03T09:44:36Z")

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Hi, everyone  
I upgrade ES from 5.4.0 to 6.8.0.  
Now I want to disable \_all field in my index and I get a error:

curl -XPUT 172.16.3.81:9200/human -d'  
{  
"mappings": {  
"human": {  
"\_all": {  
"enabled": false  
}  
}  
}  
}  
'

{"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"resource\_already\_exists\_exception","reason":"index [dzwl-d406-imsiimei20190703/wqC7apwuREm6e6OsY3lLzA] already exists","index\_uuid":"wqC7apwuREm6e6OsY3lLzA","index":"dzwl-d406-imsiimei20190703"}],"type":"resource\_already\_exists\_exception","reason":"index [dzwl-d406-imsiimei20190703/wqC7apwuREm6e6OsY3lLzA] already exists","index\_uuid":"wqC7apwuREm6e6OsY3lLzA","index":"dzwl-d406-imsiimei20190703"},"status":400}[root@hadoop-5 waitupdate]#

How can I disable \_all field in ES?  
thank you very much.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-not-disable-all-field/188673/2 "2019-07-03T10:26:16Z")

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You cannot disable it on an index that already exists, you will need to reindex into a new index with that mapping applied.

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**Author:** ![yeziblo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/74df32/32.png) [@yeziblo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yeziblo)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-not-disable-all-field/188673/3 "2019-07-03T11:14:03Z")

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OK...  
Thank you and best regards.

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**Author:** ![Miguel1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/miguel1/32/82094_2.png) [@Miguel1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Miguel1)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-not-disable-all-field/188673/4 "2019-07-03T11:25:40Z")

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In addition, just to keep in mind that there is no \_all feature in \>6.x versions. ([+info](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.0/mapping-all-field.html)).

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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:** [July 31, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-not-disable-all-field/188673/5 "2019-07-31T11:32:04Z")

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