# Logstash trying to reprocess the same files
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-trying-to-reprocess-the-same-files/317362
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [October 25, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-trying-to-reprocess-the-same-files/317362 "2022-10-25T04:25:16Z")
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### Author:  [@Victor\_Caetano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Victor_Caetano)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-trying-to-reprocess-the-same-files/317362/1 "2022-10-25T04:25:16Z")
I'm using File Input Plugin, and a multiline codec, and grok filters to process .txt files that exists in a folder in my Linux VM, those files are static, i don't make changes in it's content, i only add more files to this folder
But logstash tries to reprocess the content of the old files so many times, that is causing the version conflict problem
I don't know why logstash is trying to reindex the content of these files over and over again, because, like i said, i don't change anything in their content
All the files has different and unique names because all of them have the timestamp in their titles
I use action =\> "create" on my output, and the folder receive new files every 5 minutes
An unusual thing that i've noticed is that, on my sincedb file, all the files appears more than once, and also shows 2 or more different inodes for the same file
Someone has a clue on what could probably cause this problem? Logstash trying to re read unchanged files
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### Author:  [@Rios](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rios)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-trying-to-reprocess-the-same-files/317362/2 "2022-10-25T16:20:19Z")
What is your input code?
You should have something like this:
```auto
input {
file {
path => "/dir/*.log"
start_position => beginning
sincedb_path => ["/path/sincedb.db"]
mode => "tail"
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-trying-to-reprocess-the-same-files/317362/3 "2022-11-22T16:21:04Z")
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