diff --git a/ansible/roles/cassandra-state-validated/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/cassandra-state-validated/tasks/main.yml
index 97825f90ad5493618a3a48e8de52ca85f3519366..a7bb96ee7b2bf05bb4301966fa269fa3a55c8d2a 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/cassandra-state-validated/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/cassandra-state-validated/tasks/main.yml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
     owner: deployer
     group: deployer
     mode: '0644'
+    force: yes
     recurse: yes
 
 - name: run the script to synch es data