# Reindex does not create all documents, Response says it updated some documents

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reindex-does-not-create-all-documents-response-says-it-updated-some-documents/123722>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 13, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reindex-does-not-create-all-documents-response-says-it-updated-some-documents/123722 "2018-03-13T11:40:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![pavan\_gowda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@pavan\_gowda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pavan_gowda)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reindex-does-not-create-all-documents-response-says-it-updated-some-documents/123722/1 "2018-03-13T11:40:15Z")

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Reindex API is not creating all the documents from source index to dest index, Response says it got updated some documents, but there were no documents exists to update, It was a newly created index, It has to create all the documents. can anyone help me understand whats wrong going on here?

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**Post date:** [April 10, 2018, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reindex-does-not-create-all-documents-response-says-it-updated-some-documents/123722/2 "2018-04-10T11:40:15Z")

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