# Unable to ingest CSV files since Logstash 7.3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-ingest-csv-files-since-logstash-7-3/201895>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-ingest-csv-files-since-logstash-7-3/201895 "2019-10-02T05:22:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![vincent2mots](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vincent2mots/32/55226_2.png) [@vincent2mots](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vincent2mots)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-ingest-csv-files-since-logstash-7-3/201895/1 "2019-10-02T05:22:30Z")

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Hi experts,

I'm struggling with Logstash since the 7.3 release version.

Here my logstash configuration file :

```
input {
  file {
    path => ["C:\samples\sample.csv"]
    start_position => "beginning"
    sincedb_path => "NUL"
  }
}
output {
  elasticsearch {
    hosts => ["localhost:9200"]
    index => "sample_index"
  }
}

```

If I try to launch this with Logstash 6.0 (to index data into an Elasticsearch 7.3), everything works well : my index is created and the data is inserted.

Meanwhile, if I try to use the configuration file with Logstash \> 6 (7.3 or 7.4), nothing happens : I have no error message...

Could you please help me? I think I'm missing something 🙂

Best regards,

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**Author:** ![vincent2mots](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vincent2mots/32/55226_2.png) [@vincent2mots](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vincent2mots)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-ingest-csv-files-since-logstash-7-3/201895/2 "2019-10-02T09:39:07Z")

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I may have found a solution... using Linux (Debian) instead of Windows!

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-ingest-csv-files-since-logstash-7-3/201895/3 "2019-10-02T12:38:48Z")

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Do not use backslash in the path option of a file input, use forward slash (\\ may also work).

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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:** [October 30, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-ingest-csv-files-since-logstash-7-3/201895/4 "2019-10-30T12:38:56Z")

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