# Update \_source excludes in place in documents **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 14, 2013, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update--source-excludes-in-place-in-documents/11152 "2013-03-14T09:47:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kaare\_Skovgaard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@Kaare\_Skovgaard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaare_Skovgaard)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update--source-excludes-in-place-in-documents/11152/1 "2013-03-14T09:47:28Z")
Hello, After about a weeks running of indexing attachments into Elasticsearch, we sadly discovered that we forgot to add a \_source.excludes on the base64 encoded file content of all the attachments. We would love to somehow do the following: 1. Change the mapping to add the excludes to the source - I tried doing this using the regular PUT mapping API as described in the docs. However, it seems that when there is already a mapping in place, the source attribute is ignored? The same curl call I use works fine if I delete the type altogether first. 2. Use the update API on the actual documents to exclude that one field for all the documents that are already indexed. Reading the docs I can't seem to locate any information on how to try to achieve this. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated! 🙂 And lastly: Thanks for an awesome product, it truly rocks! 🙂 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**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, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update--source-excludes-in-place-in-documents/11152/2 "2017-07-06T02:46:32Z")