# Error with feature-table filter-seqs: All features were filtered out of the data.

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-with-feature-table-filter-seqs-all-features-were-filtered-out-of-the-data/9296
**Category:** Technical Support
**Created:** [April 17, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-with-feature-table-filter-seqs-all-features-were-filtered-out-of-the-data/9296 "2019-04-17T20:47:31Z")
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### Author: ![ChrisKeefe](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/chriskeefe/32/1907_2.png) [@ChrisKeefe](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/ChrisKeefe)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/error-with-feature-table-filter-seqs-all-features-were-filtered-out-of-the-data/9296/6 "2019-04-17T23:36:39Z")

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At second glance, @Ricardo_Ramiro, it looks like you have an ID mismatch here - your command is trying to filter the features in your `rep-seqs` using the _sample_ ids from your metadata file. Your sample and feature IDs are different, so the query finds no matches.

Try using your `--p-where` query to [`filter samples`](https://docs.qiime2.org/2019.1/plugins/available/feature-table/filter-samples/) from your `FeatureTable[Frequency]`.

Filtering out the _samples_ that match your query will produce a FeatureTable[frequency] file you can then pass into [`filter-seqs`](https://docs.qiime2.org/2019.1/plugins/available/feature-table/filter-seqs/) without a `--p-where` query. Features that exist in your filtered table will be retained, features that don't exist in those samples will be dropped.

Lots of good information on filtering in the [Filtering Data Tutorial](https://docs.qiime2.org/2019.1/tutorials/filtering/#metadata-based-filtering)

Hope this helps!  
Chris

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