# File Upload - Overwrite Index by new Upload

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-upload-overwrite-index-by-new-upload/379720>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 2, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-upload-overwrite-index-by-new-upload/379720 "2025-07-02T18:33:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-upload-overwrite-index-by-new-upload/379720/1 "2025-07-02T18:33:32Z")

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Hello,

My use case is wanting to leverage a csv file that will get update once in a while.  
This csv file contains metadata information that will be later used for an enriching data with Elastic.

The File Upload feature allows you to upload a csv file, this works, but what if I want to reupload an updated csv to the same index, is this not possible currently?

The reasoning for this is that users prefer data entry like updating a csv file and it will allow more control on when the index gets updated (reuploading the csv file) vs using elastic agent to continuously read for changes.

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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-upload-overwrite-index-by-new-upload/379720/2 "2025-07-02T18:37:59Z")

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Why not? ☹

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/5/c5821f0b8654e282f0593ae41f52131919bd3322.png)