# Delete and restart stream

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/delete-and-restart-stream/50411>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [December 21, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/delete-and-restart-stream/50411 "2017-12-21T02:31:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![David\_Chadd1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@David\_Chadd1](https://community.wowza.com/u/David_Chadd1)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/delete-and-restart-stream/50411/1 "2017-12-21T02:31:21Z")

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Situation is this:

- Live stream was started or even completed
- Manually or programmatically deleted live\_definst\_\*_STREAMNAME.0\STREAMFOLDER_\*
- Stream is restarted under the same stream name
- Old stream plays for awhile then the stream just stops loading all together
- New video does not play unless the server is rebooted
- Also have to manually place the manifest.txt file in order to get it to play

So my question is, is there a better way to do what I am trying to accomplish. Or, is there a way to release the stream from the cache in order to gracefully restart. Thanks.