# How to manage phisycal logs file after moving to ELK 5:12 if we want to delete text files

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-phisycal-logs-file-after-moving-to-elk-5-12-if-we-want-to-delete-text-files/243555>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 3, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-phisycal-logs-file-after-moving-to-elk-5-12-if-we-want-to-delete-text-files/243555 "2020-08-03T12:07:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Puneeth\_S\_B\_Gowda1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/puneeth_s_b_gowda1/32/68544_2.png) [@Puneeth\_S\_B\_Gowda1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Puneeth_S_B_Gowda1)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-phisycal-logs-file-after-moving-to-elk-5-12-if-we-want-to-delete-text-files/243555/1 "2020-08-03T12:07:37Z")

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how to manage physical logs file after moving to ELK if we want to delete text files after moving to ELK how do we do?

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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:** [August 3, 2020, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-phisycal-logs-file-after-moving-to-elk-5-12-if-we-want-to-delete-text-files/243555/2 "2020-08-03T22:15:40Z")

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Which log files are you referring to here? The Elasticsearch ones?

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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:** [August 10, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-phisycal-logs-file-after-moving-to-elk-5-12-if-we-want-to-delete-text-files/243555/4 "2020-08-10T04:18:29Z")

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You've now opened 3 topics on this same thing, please don't do that.

See [Source raw files purging after shipping to ELK](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/source-raw-files-purging-after-shipping-to-elk/243597)

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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:** [August 10, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-manage-phisycal-logs-file-after-moving-to-elk-5-12-if-we-want-to-delete-text-files/243555/5 "2020-08-10T04:18:32Z")

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