@ppbirajdar    My next thought would be to just drop the cloned FlowFile right before the MergeContent since you intent is not to reassemble the exact same original file.  Your intent, if i understand correctly, is to just create one file that contains 1 FlowFile with each unique fragment index.   If that is the case, perhaps all you need is a detectDuplicate in front of your mergeContent that uses a combination of Fragment.identifier and fragment.index for determining if there is a duplicate FlowFile to drop.  You would simply set the "Cache Entry Identifier" to "${fragment.identifier}-${fragment.index}". Then only the first occurrence of a FlowFile with unique fragment.index+fragment.identifier will make it in to the connection queue for your MergeContent processor.  Then the Defragment merge strategy will work successfully giving you what I believe you are looking for here.   Hope this helps with your use case, Matt ... View more