# ElasticSearch 1.4.4 Windows 2012 "system cannot find file specified"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-4-4-windows-2012-system-cannot-find-file-specified/51737>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** es-hadoop\
**Created:** [June 2, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-4-4-windows-2012-system-cannot-find-file-specified/51737 "2016-06-02T19:52:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![jruiter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4af34b/32.png) [@jruiter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jruiter)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-4-4-windows-2012-system-cannot-find-file-specified/51737/1 "2016-06-02T19:52:33Z")

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I'm probably missing something fundamental, but....

I've inherited a Sugar CRM server that requires ElasticSearch (1.4.4) installed. I pulled down the ZIP file, put it in directory, and ran the elasticsearch.bat as the instructions. I get "The system cannot find the path specified". I removed the @echo off from the batch file. The offending line is:

CALL "%~dp0elasticsearch.in.bat"

The path is most definitely correct. I tried replacing is with "C:\ElasticSearch\Bin\elasticsearch.in.bat". Same message.

Is there something different about CALL in Windows 2012 that I'm missing?

Anyone else seen this sort of thing? I did a search in the forums and didn't find anything.

Thanks  
Jason

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**Author:** ![jruiter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4af34b/32.png) [@jruiter](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jruiter)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-4-4-windows-2012-system-cannot-find-file-specified/51737/2 "2016-06-02T20:19:24Z")

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Disregard.

JAVA\_HOME was set incorrectly. Wasn't the CALL statement at all.

Thanks

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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:** [June 3, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-4-4-windows-2012-system-cannot-find-file-specified/51737/3 "2016-06-03T03:22:22Z")

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You should _really_ upgrade, 1.4.4 is super old and no longer supported on any level.

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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 6, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-4-4-windows-2012-system-cannot-find-file-specified/51737/4 "2017-07-06T13:24:29Z")

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