SharePoint Server 2019 Search Content Source gives error already exists.

Question

When I Create Search Content Source and add URL into "Start Addresses" and opt Crawl Setting to "Crawl everything under the hostname for each start address" it gives me bellow error. Even though I have checked all the content sources and that url does not exists in any ot the content source. What should I do to get rid of this issue ? As I am not in a position to reset index. I have huge sites and all are already indexed. Kindly suggest any other way to resolve this issue.

Answer 1

Hi @Rahim Molvani,

As per my knowledge, this error is caused by the URL is crawled by other content sources. You can go to Crawl log and select URL view, search for that URL to check if it is included in other content sources.

Please let me know the result. Thanks:)

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