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search crawl is failing with "object deleted"

Shashi Rekha Revanna --CNTR 5 Reputation points
2025-06-05T06:48:58.7333333+00:00

search crawl is failing with "object deleted" and hence the results are not popping in one of the subsite alone.

  1. Content source is configured to crawl the webapplication.
  2. issue is identified with one of the site collection where the crawl is failing with "object deleted"

Below test cases didn't yield success.

  1. To address the issue, we have re-indexed the individual site and performed incremental crawl
  2. Cleared config cache and have run full crawl to fix.
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  1. Jayden-P 1,200 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
    2025-06-05T08:21:26.0433333+00:00

    Hi @Shashi Rekha Revanna --CNTR ,  

    Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum. 

    Based on the information you have provided, looks like you have problem when crawled searching deleted objects. 

    I will need some more information to assist you better. 

    1. What version of SharePoint are you using? 
    2. Can you identify the status of deleted objects? Are they permanently removed or still there but in accessible? 
    3. Does this issue happen in one specific subsite? If you exclude that subsite, does the search work normally? 

    Can you please provide some screenshots with the errors as well? 

    You can check out this link for more details Best practices for crawling in SharePoint Server - SharePoint Server | Microsoft Learn 

    Thank you for your understanding. 

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