# Deleting an index does not seem to delete external versioning

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-an-index-does-not-seem-to-delete-external-versioning/194091>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-an-index-does-not-seem-to-delete-external-versioning/194091 "2019-08-06T19:16:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Philiiiiiipp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/philiiiiiipp/32/51782_2.png) [@Philiiiiiipp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Philiiiiiipp)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 7:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deleting-an-index-does-not-seem-to-delete-external-versioning/194091/7 "2019-08-07T07:38:14Z")

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I suppose that makes sense, it was just a bit weird that using the internal versioning this was not a problem. I suppose it did the same thing with creating the index but assumed a higher version number once the insert was done.

Thank you for your help !

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