# Filebeat fails to pickup other files

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-fails-to-pickup-other-files/51202>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 27, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-fails-to-pickup-other-files/51202 "2016-05-27T21:59:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![kalapakim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@kalapakim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kalapakim)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-fails-to-pickup-other-files/51202/18 "2016-06-03T13:14:54Z")

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Windows Server 2012 and I'm using Filebeat 5.0.0-alpha3.

There are more details in the issue I opened...

[filebeat-not-polling-the-directory](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-not-polling-the-directory/51472)

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