# Input file start\_position =\> "beginning" doesn't work even after deleting .sincedb files

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-start-position-beginning-doesnt-work-even-after-deleting-sincedb-files/75627
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [February 19, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-start-position-beginning-doesnt-work-even-after-deleting-sincedb-files/75627 "2017-02-19T06:16:38Z")
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### Author: ![Prathamesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@Prathamesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prathamesh)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-start-position-beginning-doesnt-work-even-after-deleting-sincedb-files/75627/1 "2017-02-19T06:16:38Z")

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Hello World

Version: ElasticSearch-5.2.1/Logstash-5.2.1/Kibana-5.2.1  
OS: Windows 2008

I've just started working on the ELK Stack & am facing some problems loading data  
I've got the following .json code

```
input {
  file {
    path => "D:\server.log"
	start_position => beginning
  }
}
filter {  
        grok {
                match => ["message","\[%{TIMESTAMP_ISO8601:timestamp}\] %{GREEDYDATA:log_message}"]
            }
			date {
match => ["timestamp", "dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z"]
target => "@timestamp"
}
        }
output {
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => "localhost:9200"
  }
}

```

I've deleted the .sincedb files

And yet when I extract log info in Kibana, I can see data starting only since I first parsed  
I've got data worth 2-3 months in my log file

Please advise

Thanks  
P

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-start-position-beginning-doesnt-work-even-after-deleting-sincedb-files/75627/2 "2017-02-22T06:37:48Z")

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Hard to tell what's going on. If you increase Logstash's log level and check your logs you'll get clues about what the file input is doing.

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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: [March 22, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/input-file-start-position-beginning-doesnt-work-even-after-deleting-sincedb-files/75627/3 "2017-03-22T06:38:34Z")

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