Cannot locate content types

Hi,

You can use the below script to find out where these contents types are used, please don’t delete until you know where these contents types are used otherwise it will create issue later.

$site = Get-SPSite("your-site-url");

foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) {

   $ctype = $web.ContentTypes["Your Content Type"]

   $usages = [Microsoft.Sharepoint.SPContentTypeUsage]::GetUsages($ctype)

   foreach ($usage in $usages) {

      Write-Host $usage.Url

   }

}

Once you have the culprit content types and you know where it is used then you can delete that but before that you have to delete that list/library that using that content types, use below script for that.

SPContentType ct = site.RootWeb.ContentTypes["CustomContentType"];

IList<SPContentTypeUsage> usages = SPContentTypeUsage.GetUsages(ct);

foreach (SPContentTypeUsage usage in usages)

{

    if (usage.IsUrlToList)

    {

        SPList list = web.GetList(usage.Url);

        SPQuery query = new SPQuery();

        query.Query = string.Concat(

                        "<Where><Eq>",

                            "<FieldRef Name='ContentType'/>",

                            string.Format("<Value Type='Text'>{0}</Value>", ct.Name),

                        "</Eq></Where>");

        SPListItemCollection listItems = list.GetItems(query);

        for (int i = 0; i < listItems.Count; i++)

        {

            listItems[i].Delete();

        }

    }

}

KRISHANA KUMAR

SharePoint Architect

Mosstechnet-kk.com

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