# Wrong path.data and path.logs for filebeat windows in installation script

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrong-path-data-and-path-logs-for-filebeat-windows-in-installation-script/164499>\
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**Created:** [January 16, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrong-path-data-and-path-logs-for-filebeat-windows-in-installation-script/164499 "2019-01-16T16:10:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![dennis\_ukhanov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dennis\_ukhanov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dennis_ukhanov)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrong-path-data-and-path-logs-for-filebeat-windows-in-installation-script/164499/1 "2019-01-16T16:10:57Z")

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I believe Windows PowerShell script install-service-filebeat.ps1`contains wrong path for data and logs folder. On my Windows Server 2012R2 I see`"C:\ProgramData\filebeat"`and`"C:\ProgramData\filebeat\logs"`respectively so service is working but don't know where to write logs and where to store current file offset. I changed paths to`"$workdir\data"`and`"$workdir\logs"` and everything start working.

`filebeat-6.5.4-windows-x86_64`, `filebeat-6.5.4-windows-x86`

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 10:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrong-path-data-and-path-logs-for-filebeat-windows-in-installation-script/164499/2 "2019-01-18T22:45:05Z")

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Was it some kind of permissions failure? We intend for the Filebeat service to write its data to the ProgramData directory rather than the installation directory. But if you modify this it shouldn't cause any issues.

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**Author:** ![dennis\_ukhanov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dennis\_ukhanov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dennis_ukhanov)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrong-path-data-and-path-logs-for-filebeat-windows-in-installation-script/164499/3 "2019-01-25T12:30:52Z")

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Sorry, but I don't know reason why. "ProgramData" directory was missing and I had no "data" and "logs" directories.

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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:** [February 22, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrong-path-data-and-path-logs-for-filebeat-windows-in-installation-script/164499/4 "2019-02-22T14:31:00Z")

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