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I am facing a strange problem on my SharePoint Enterprise 2013. I have previously deleted some site collections from central administration. Now I want to remove them permanently. So I run the following powershell commands:-

>>Get-spdeletedsite

Then I run the following command on each site collection:

>>Remove-spdeletedsite <<site id>>

but I will get the following error on some site collections:

Unable to find the specified file

Here is a screen shot of my scripts: enter image description here

I remember that when I removed these site collections from central administration, some exceptions occurred and these SCs kept appearing under the site collection list inside CA without site collection admins. So I remove then using powershell commands, but now I am unable to remove them permanently.

EDIT Here are the related logs (after i have enabled verbose logging) when i try to run the following powershell script remove-spdeletedsite <siteid>:-

10/15/2015 15:45:01.71 PowerShell.exe (0x08D0) 0x2798 SharePoint Foundation PowerShell 6tf2 High System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Unable to find the specified file. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDeletedSite.Delete(Boolean isForMigration) at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRemoveDeletedSite.DeleteDataObject() at Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdlet.ProcessRecord() 11ab2dee-3240-49ac-a058-c72585a8f549 10/15/2015 15:45:01.71 PowerShell.exe (0x08D0) 0x2798 SharePoint Foundation PowerShell 91ux High Error Category: InvalidData Target Object Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell.SPCmdletRemoveDeletedSite Details NULL RecommendedAction NULL 11ab2dee-3240-49ac-a058-c72585a8f549 10/15/2015 15:45:01.89 NodeRunner.exe (0x0A74) 0x218C SharePoint Foundation General narq Verbose Releasing SPRequest with allocation Id {ED9DD0DD-04D8-47A7-B8EC-817A195A8B98} 10/15/2015 15:45:01.89 NodeRunner.exe (0x0B04) 0x0ACC SharePoint Foundation General narq Verbose Releasing SPRequest with allocation Id {F3D78E11-A9AD-470B-9523-5B30F5320FAB} 10/15/2015 15:45:01.89 SPUCHostService.exe (0x2C94) 0x1660 SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service ei0r Verbose - Monitoring read perf counters for process "SPUCWorkerProcess": PercentProcessorTime=6.911171E-07 ProcessVirtualBytes=7.166607E+08 ProcessHandleCount=380 ProcessThreadCount=15 ProcessIOBytes=0 10/15/2015 15:45:01.89 SPUCHostService.exe (0x2C94) 0x1660 SharePoint Foundation Sandboxed Code Service ei0r Verbose - Monitoring read perf counters for process "SPUCWorkerProcessProxy": PercentProcessorTime=0.1865803 ProcessVirtualBytes=1.122054E+09 ProcessHandleCount=729 ProcessThreadCount=30 ProcessIOBytes=4.837582E-07 10/15/2015 15:45:01.95 w3wp.exe (0x1E5C) 0x1EDC SharePoint Foundation General narq Verbose Releasing SPRequest with allocation Id {057EF76A-EE68-4DE9-B9F7-9608C66F912A} 10/15/2015 15:45:02.01 w3wp.exe (0x04D4) 0x1168 SharePoint Foundation General narq Verbose Releasing SPRequest with allocation Id {253150D6-10E9-4F56-A1D1-CF4990DDD444} 10/15/2015 15:45:02.01 SPUCHostService.exe (0x2C94) 0x1B40 SharePoint Foundation General narq Verbose Releasing SPRequest with allocation Id {75C05F08-EFE8-4CC3-9907-2A831B06A202} 10/15/2015 15:45:02.01 NodeRunnerContent1-95a90d97-e7d (0x1EA8) 0x10B0 Search General ahjoj Verbose Getting Correlation Header failed, no correlation ID.
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This command was only able to remove the site !!!

stsadm.exe -o deletesite -force -siteid 0******3 -DatabaseServer *******\SharePoint -DatabaseName WSS_Content
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Try:

$ds = Get-SPDeletedSite | ?{$_.SiteId -eq "<your guid>"} Remove-SPDeletedSite $ds

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  • can you advice please what i need to add inside the "your guid" ? is this same as site id ? Commented Oct 14, 2015 at 16:08
  • Yep, the SiteId value. Commented Oct 14, 2015 at 16:12
  • i wrote the following "$ds = Get-SPDeletedSite | ?{$_.SiteId -eq "fd8e55ea-bd58-42d7-b415-92e0391277f6"} Remove-SPDeletedSite $ds" but i received the same error " Unable to find the specified file " Commented Oct 14, 2015 at 17:22
  • Using the same $ds variable in your Get cmdlet, try $ds.Delete(). If that doesn't work, examine the ULS logs at the point of attempted deletion. Commented Oct 14, 2015 at 17:28
  • i tried $ds.Delete() ,, but i got this error "Exception calling "Delete" with "0" argument(s): "Unable to find the specified file." At line:1 char:1 + $ds.Delete() + ~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : FileNotFoundException" Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 0:23
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The error “Unable to find specified file” comes when there is any dependencies (features, webpart, custom template or etc..) previously there but now missing for example earlier some of the functionality was available but now that is not available. You can try the debugging steps here You can try to use “force delete” when the site cannot be deleted you have to add the site id and database id to the code and check. $site = Get-SPSite http://yoursiteURL $siteId = $site.Id $siteDatabase = $site.ContentDatabase $siteDatabase.ForceDeleteSite($siteId, $false, $false)

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  • again Get-SPSite will not work !!! as i can not get the site using the URL Commented Oct 21, 2015 at 16:20
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Its pretty old post but for any one still having this issue can resolve this by trying the following commands.

Get-SPDeletedSite $Site=Get-SPDeletedSite -Identity [Enter the Site ID] $DBID=$Site.DatabaseId $DB=Get-SPContentDatabase $DBID $DB.RefreshSitesInConfigurationDatabase()

HTH

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