# Creating index on already imported data

**URL:** <https://community.neo4j.com/t/creating-index-on-already-imported-data/4058>\
**Category:** Operations\
**Tags:** index\
**Created:** [December 27, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/creating-index-on-already-imported-data/4058 "2018-12-27T12:35:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![12kunal34](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/12kunal34/32/2617_2.png) [@12kunal34](https://community.neo4j.com/u/12kunal34)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/creating-index-on-already-imported-data/4058/1 "2018-12-27T12:35:44Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I want to create index on my data property .  
Accidentally i have created index on a property that is not needed . now in my lable already 400k records available and when i am trying to create index on desired property it is taking so much time and in end i am seeing failure message .  
could you please help me with indexing in this case.

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**Author:** ![david.fauth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/david.fauth/32/189_2.png) [@david.fauth](https://community.neo4j.com/u/david.fauth)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/creating-index-on-already-imported-data/4058/2 "2018-12-27T14:43:08Z")

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You may want to stop Neo4j, restart Neo4j and then create the index.

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**Author:** ![12kunal34](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/12kunal34/32/2617_2.png) [@12kunal34](https://community.neo4j.com/u/12kunal34)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/creating-index-on-already-imported-data/4058/3 "2018-12-28T07:15:50Z")

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@david.fauth Thank you so much 🙂