# How to delete type?thanks

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-type-thanks/65163>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 7, 2016, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-type-thanks/65163 "2016-11-07T05:36:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![23233](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/ecc23a/32.png) [@23233](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/23233)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-type-thanks/65163/1 "2016-11-07T05:36:51Z")

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**i don't know es5.0 how detele type**  
**please help me**

**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:** [November 7, 2016, 5:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-type-thanks/65163/2 "2016-11-07T05:38:31Z")

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You cannot, the closest you can get is [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.0/docs-delete-by-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.0/docs-delete-by-query.html)

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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:** [November 7, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-type-thanks/65163/3 "2016-11-07T06:53:15Z")

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And sometimes when you don't have important data (well when you just start to play with elasticsearch) it's better to remove the full index.

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**Author:** ![23233](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/ecc23a/32.png) [@23233](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/23233)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-type-thanks/65163/4 "2016-11-07T08:33:40Z")

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**first very thank you reply my quesition**

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**if i data not has important data,i will chose delete `index` ,but now is i in input multiple `type` but of one `type` fail i want delete this error `type` after re-input**

\*\*i want to try \_delete\_by\_query this is my code \*\*  
`curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/myindex/wantDeleteType/_delete_by_query { "query": { "range": { "id":{"gte":1} } } }`

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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:** [November 7, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-type-thanks/65163/5 "2016-11-07T08:57:35Z")

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If you want to delete a type because you want to change the mapping, this will not work.  
If you just want to reindex old data using the same mapping then you don't need to remove old data before that as long as you are using the same I'd.

If you explain a bit more what you are trying to solve here we can give you the best solution for it.

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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:** [December 5, 2016, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-delete-type-thanks/65163/6 "2016-12-05T08:57:53Z")

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