# ElasticSearch with FsCrawler Eror

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-with-fscrawler-eror/353712>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 20, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-with-fscrawler-eror/353712 "2024-02-20T15:36:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![DAVID\_MARIN\_ALVAREZ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/david_marin_alvarez/32/126492_2.png) [@DAVID\_MARIN\_ALVAREZ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DAVID_MARIN_ALVAREZ)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-with-fscrawler-eror/353712/1 "2024-02-20T15:36:02Z")

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I need help please ! I'm using Fscrawler for process diferent documents with diferents formats (pdf, wxcel, word, RTF, etc) but i'm have a stranger error: `

```auto
10:03:29,868 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.c.BootstrapChecks] Memory [Free/Total=Percent]: HEAP [183.4mb/3.9gb=4.51%], RAM [3gb/15.8gb=19.34%], Swap [8.1gb/28.3gb=28.82%].
10:03:30,146 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] Starting FS crawler
10:03:30,147 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] FS crawler started in watch mode. It will run unless you stop it with CTRL+C.
10:03:30,575 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.c.ElasticsearchClient] Elasticsearch Client connected to a node running version 8.12.1
10:03:30,625 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.c.ElasticsearchClient] Elasticsearch Client connected to a node running version 8.12.1
10:03:30,636 WARN [f.p.e.c.f.c.ElasticsearchClient] failed to create index [documento_index], disabling crawler...
10:03:30,642 FATAL [f.p.e.c.f.c.FsCrawlerCli] We can not start Elasticsearch Client. Exiting.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Mapping file _settings.json does not exist for elasticsearch version 8 in [C:\Users\DMARIN\.fscrawler\_default] dir
        at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.framework.FsCrawlerUtil.readDefaultJsonVersionedFile(FsCrawlerUtil.java:86) ~[fscrawler-framework-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
        at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.framework.FsCrawlerUtil.readJsonFile(FsCrawlerUtil.java:121) ~[fscrawler-framework-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
        at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.client.ElasticsearchClient.createIndex(ElasticsearchClient.java:695) ~[fscrawler-elasticsearch-client-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
        at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.client.ElasticsearchClient.createIndices(ElasticsearchClient.java:412) ~[fscrawler-elasticsearch-client-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
        at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.service.FsCrawlerDocumentServiceElasticsearchImpl.createSchema(FsCrawlerDocumentServiceElasticsearchImpl.java:71) ~[fscrawler-core-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
        at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.FsCrawlerImpl.start(FsCrawlerImpl.java:118) ~[fscrawler-core-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] 
        at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.cli.FsCrawlerCli.startEsClient(FsCrawlerCli.java:322) [fscrawler-cli-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]
        at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.cli.FsCrawlerCli.main(FsCrawlerCli.java:298) [fscrawler-cli-2.10-SNAPSHOT.jar:?]  
10:03:30,661 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] FS crawler [documento_index] stopped
10:03:30,663 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] FS crawler [documento_index] stopped

```

The .json file exist in the correct path, I don't understand this error, please help!

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-with-fscrawler-eror/353712/2 "2024-02-20T15:59:39Z")

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This might be a problem with windows path.  
Did you download the latest snapshot?

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**Author:** ![DAVID\_MARIN\_ALVAREZ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/david_marin_alvarez/32/126492_2.png) [@DAVID\_MARIN\_ALVAREZ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DAVID_MARIN_ALVAREZ)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-with-fscrawler-eror/353712/3 "2024-02-20T16:56:05Z")

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Yes i did it, i'm download:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/9/39c300e1df3d9a8e69e95cbc4dc0d38c2a5f09e1.png)

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-with-fscrawler-eror/353712/4 "2024-02-20T21:42:37Z")

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It's from 2022! Too old. Please take the latest one.

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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:** [March 19, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-with-fscrawler-eror/353712/5 "2024-03-19T21:43:34Z")

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