It's pretty simple. All you have to do is unzip or uninstall to a different location. When you start up the first time, it will also ask you to change ports (since the default one will be occupied). Pick a new port number (it doesn't matter what). That's all.
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Thanks Martin, this is very useful; we don't have anything older than 1998 (the sample I have above is a dummy sample).. I will now have to look further if this is the case.. I will update my findings here. I tried indexing the same data with splunk 6 in a sandbox; and it works seamlessly without this issue; I guess it might be that splunk team might have fixed this in the latest versions of splunk!
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