# ITS cutadapt trimming of primer and reverse complement of the reverse primer

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/its-cutadapt-trimming-of-primer-and-reverse-complement-of-the-reverse-primer/21344
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** cutadapt
**Created:** [November 16, 2021, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/its-cutadapt-trimming-of-primer-and-reverse-complement-of-the-reverse-primer/21344 "2021-11-16T06:31:41Z")
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### Author: ![Keegan-Evans](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/keegan-evans/32/10422_2.png) [@Keegan-Evans](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Keegan-Evans)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/its-cutadapt-trimming-of-primer-and-reverse-complement-of-the-reverse-primer/21344/15 "2021-11-29T17:37:08Z")

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@gkphilip,

I am glad you got it figured out! Cutadapt can be a bit picky and likes to be told exactly what to do. I wish it was not so picky, but we are not the developers of Cutadapt itself 🥴

Thanks for hopping back on and documenting that this fixed it for you 👌🏼 Between your post, the post you linked, and another post from this past week, I think we can say that this is now a known issue and warn other users about it!

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