Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Error Deleting Site Collection

When trying to delete a site collection, the following error pops up:

Command: stsadm -o deletesite -url http://servername/sites/sitename
Error: The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070003)

An error like this prevents you from upgrading SharePoint aswell, because you won't be able to access the site collection either. I found out the hard way.

To resolve the error, detach and attach the content database of the afflicted site collection.
i.e.

stsadm -o deletecontentdb -databasename wss_content_name -url http://servername

stsadm -o addcontentdb -databasename wss_content_name -url http://servername

1 comment:

  1. Thanks Daniel! That was exactly my problem - some "ghost" site jeopardizing my update. Your post certainly spared me from wasting hours or days with this. Lukas.

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