# Upgrade to 6.0 with basic license
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690 "2017-11-15T08:54:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Zsolt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zsolt)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690/1 "2017-11-15T08:54:16Z")
I'm on 5.6.3 and the upgrade assistant is telling me to reindex .watches and .triggered\_watches - but this fails with "current license is non-compliant for [watcher]".
.triggered\_watches I just deleted, but .watches index fails with "error": "This endpoint is not supported for DELETE on .watches index.".
Any tips on what to do with the .watches index so I can upgrade?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690/2 "2017-11-15T09:49:14Z")
I got a similar problem (not able to delete the `.watches` index). I ended up with a nasty workaround by removing in data dir the directory corresponding to the `.watches` index.
Not ideal but at least it worked for me.
cc @spinscale
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### Author:  [@Zsolt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zsolt)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690/3 "2017-11-15T10:11:39Z")
Thanks, I guess I'll have to do that. But this makes the upgrade process for the basic license holders a bit messy...
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690/4 "2017-11-15T10:23:28Z")
I agree. I believe we should allow removing `.watcher` old indices when the watcher is disabled which is what is happening with the basic license.
@spinscale WDYT?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2017, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690/5 "2017-11-15T10:34:00Z")
I opened an internal issue BTW about this.
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### Author:  [@willemdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willemdh)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690/6 "2017-11-16T23:03:48Z")
Any other solution for this issue except for deleting folders?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690/7 "2017-11-16T23:18:09Z")
You can run
```
DELETE .watches*
```
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### Author:  [@Zsolt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Zsolt)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690/8 "2017-11-17T09:22:04Z")
This is a nicer solution - you just have to make sure that `action.destructive_requires_name: true` is not set in your config file (I just commented it out for the delete).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/upgrade-to-6-0-with-basic-license/107690/9 "2017-12-15T09:22:09Z")
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