# Elasticsearch 2.4.3 having issue with .docx file during creating document index **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 3, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-4-3-having-issue-with-docx-file-during-creating-document-index/70448 "2017-01-03T15:20:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amar\_Srivastava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Amar\_Srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amar_Srivastava)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-4-3-having-issue-with-docx-file-during-creating-document-index/70448/1 "2017-01-03T15:20:26Z")
Thanks in advance I am new in elasticsearch and using elasticsearch 2.4.3. When I am indexing documents then .doc, pdf,txt,xls is working fine but when I tried with .docx file then it is creating issue. Below are response which I am getting, It is showing successful but in Response section, we are getting created : false Successful low level call on PUT: /ilemsdocuments/indexeddocument/F%3A%5CIndexTestSamples%5CIndexTestSamples%5CBaconNarrative.docx?pretty=true Audit trail of this API call: [1] HealthyResponse: Node: [http://localhost:9200/](http://localhost:9200/) Took: 00:00:00.1688474 # Request: { "activityNumber": "2016-001390", "activityOccurrenceDate": "2016-03-09T00:00:00", "activityPrepDate": "2016-01-26T00:00:00", "activityReportDate": "2016-01-08T00:00:00", "author": "Bard Laabs", "category": "Interviews", "dataOwnerDatabase": "main", "dataOwnerDisk": "main", "databaseLastUpdate": "2016-03-28T00:00:00", "documentEntityId": "F:\IndexTestSamples\IndexTestSamples\BaconNarrative.docx", "file": { "\_content": "-- Remove the actual content as its size is big", "\_indexed\_chars": -1 }, "fileExtension": "docx", "fileFullName": "F:\IndexTestSamples\IndexTestSamples\BaconNarrative.docx", "indexedFileInfo": { "creationTime": "2016-09-09T12:50:32+05:30", "fullName": "F:\IndexTestSamples\IndexTestSamples\BaconNarrative.docx", "lastIndexTime": "2017-01-03T11:55:20.6993801+05:30", "lastWriteTime": "2017-01-03T11:52:18.1251173+05:30", "length": 14479 }, "fileLastUpdate": "2017-01-03T11:52:18.1251173+05:30", "fileName": "BaconNarrative.docx", "indexDate": "2017-01-03T11:55:20.6993801+05:30", "indexSource": "IndexingAgent.FileWatcher", "indexedPath": "F:\IndexTestSamples\IndexTestSamples", "isLocked": false, "isNarrative": false, "mimeType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document", "title": "My Document: 2017-01-03T11:55:22.3480831+05:30", "uploadedBy": "testuser" } Response: { "\_index" : "ilemsdocuments", "\_type" : "indexeddocument", "\_id" : "F:\IndexTestSamples\IndexTestSamples\BaconNarrative.docx", "\_version" : 3, "\_shards" : { "total" : 2, "successful" : 1, "failed" : 0 }, **"created" : false** } Please help me, if someone face this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-4-3-having-issue-with-docx-file-during-creating-document-index/70448/2 "2017-01-03T16:23:12Z")
"created":false is telling you that the doc with that ID already existed in the elasticsearch index so it was not _created_ but was effectively replaced with the newly supplied version of the doc. As can be seen in the response this was version 3 of this doc. ---
**Author:** ![Amar\_Srivastava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Amar\_Srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amar_Srivastava)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-4-3-having-issue-with-docx-file-during-creating-document-index/70448/3 "2017-01-04T06:15:47Z")
Thanks you Mark for your response... Let me explain the requirement in detail First I am creating a index after that I am indexing document which is working fine first time on all extensions including _.docx_ After that I am deleting the index from document via **DeleteByQuery plugin** which is showing the indexed deleted successfully. After that when I am trying to indexed same document again then it is returning "created": false only for .docx. As you have mention that "created":false return once index is already exists that mean this could be the issue with DeleteByQuery plugin to deleting the .docx indexed document or the way of implementation I am doing. Below are the code which is using to delete indexed on document. var response = this.\_client.DeleteByQuery("MyIndex", typeof(IndexedDocument), d =\> d.Query(q =\> q.QueryString(qs =\> qs.Query(@"F:\TestFile.docx")))); Please suggest if I am doing anything wrong. thanks you ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-4-3-having-issue-with-docx-file-during-creating-document-index/70448/4 "2017-01-04T08:06:46Z")
QueryString has a syntax of it's own. The query string you passed is saying "find the document with the field called "F" and the value "\TestFile.docx" . Colons have meaning in that language [1] You need to use a query expression e.g. `term` query that does not use special characters as search operators. [1] [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#\_field\_names](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#_field_names) [2] [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/query-dsl-term-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.1/query-dsl-term-query.html) ---
**Author:** ![Amar\_Srivastava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Amar\_Srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amar_Srivastava)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-4-3-having-issue-with-docx-file-during-creating-document-index/70448/5 "2017-01-04T11:05:51Z")
@Mark_Harwood I have tries the same for the other extensions this is working fine i.e. F:\TestFile.docx , .F:\PdfTestFile.pdf, F:\XlsxTestFile.xlsx, F:\TestFiletext.txt etc It is only creating problem for the .docx files. thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-4-3-having-issue-with-docx-file-during-creating-document-index/70448/6 "2017-01-04T11:08:50Z")
> [@Amar\_Srivastava](#): > > for the other extensions this is working fine That doesn't change my recommendation. If you're deleting things using query\_string queries and you're passing those unescaped strings then you are almost certainly not deleting what you think you are deleting. ---
**Author:** ![Amar\_Srivastava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Amar\_Srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amar_Srivastava)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-4-3-having-issue-with-docx-file-during-creating-document-index/70448/7 "2017-01-04T11:17:30Z")
Then what else we can pass in QueryString apart from filepath that I am passing currently in to it. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-4-3-having-issue-with-docx-file-during-creating-document-index/70448/8 "2017-01-04T11:22:57Z")
QueryString is a language designed for power-users to write complex query strings e.g. patent searches involving boolean logic, fields, proximity operators, fuzzy operators, grouping range queries etc. You want an exact match on a filename. This is a very different use case so you need to use a different form of exact-matching query expression with no fancy operators. That is the fundamental difference between the `term` query and the `query_string` query and the docs I linked to explain this in more detail. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-4-3-having-issue-with-docx-file-during-creating-document-index/70448/9 "2017-02-01T11:23:05Z")
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