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We are running SP2013 standard edition. We have scheduled full crawl at weekend and incremental crawl every 15 minutes. Recently we deleted a site collection. After a week when I check the crawl log a number of error is saying The object was not found. ( Error from SharePoint site: HttpStatusCode NotFound The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found All of these error is about the deleted site collection.

Although I can click the error log and select remove the item from index but I think it is not the proper way. May I know how can I make SharePoint forget the deleted site collection?

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  • Is the site collection really deleted? Removing them using the UI, they still exists for another 30 days. The only way to completely remove them is to use the cmdlt delete-spsite.
    – Christoffer
    Commented Mar 2, 2016 at 6:22
  • Are you using a dedicated crawl account or something like the Farm account for crawling?
    – Matthew McDermott
    Commented Mar 2, 2016 at 12:55

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I think, you should run the full crawl to remove the deleted site from index.Crawler try 30 times before make a decison that this file/url no more with sharepoint.

When the crawler encounters an access denied or a file not found error, the item is deleted from the index if the error was encountered in more than ErrorDeleteCountAllowed consecutive crawls AND the duration since the first error is greater than ErrorDeleteIntervalAllowed hours. If both conditions are not met, the item is retried.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh127009(v=office.14).aspx

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  • An index reset might also be necessary - "Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 prevents accidental deletion of content from the index when the crawler encounters errors during a full crawl or an incremental crawl.". Of course you can play with the ErrorDeleteAccountAllowed if a reset isn't allowed for whatever reason, but a reset might just be easier.
    – James Love
    Commented Mar 4, 2016 at 22:29
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If deleted site collections still showed in the search result,then make sure below things

A full Crawl against the content source(which belongs to deleted site collections) If after couple of crawls items still Showed in the result then reset the search index. Another thought, please make sure the deleted sites also removed from Central admin Run the get-spdeletedsites and check if the deleted site listed their.

Thanks

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  • What should I do if get-spdeletedsites return the deleted site?
    – Mark L
    Commented Mar 2, 2016 at 7:31
  • Remove-SPDeletedSite -Identity GUID of your Deletd Site then after reset iis and Sharepoint Timer Service and after that Reset Index and Do Full Crawl and check Crawl Logs technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh286316.aspx
    – S.P
    Commented Mar 2, 2016 at 8:54

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