# Illegal\_state\_exception is preventing deletion of watches

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/illegal-state-exception-is-preventing-deletion-of-watches/55085
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [July 8, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/illegal-state-exception-is-preventing-deletion-of-watches/55085 "2016-07-08T18:58:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![JohnMunson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@JohnMunson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JohnMunson)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/illegal-state-exception-is-preventing-deletion-of-watches/55085/21 "2016-08-02T22:59:24Z")

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Okay, I've gotten clearance from my management to send you the directories you asked for, so I'm about to send you an email with a zip of those directories attached. Please let me know if you get it -- hopefully the attachment isn't so big that it won't go through -- it's about 4MB.

Thanks.

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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: [July 6, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/illegal-state-exception-is-preventing-deletion-of-watches/55085/22 "2017-07-06T13:43:59Z")

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