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Content Library Cleanup - System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of
Michiel Overweel @ I logged a case with Microsoft and the tech went straight to the document I mentioned above that says the cleaner tool doesn't work when co-located on the site server and said it wouldn't work. He is escalating to see if we have any other options for cleaning out the orphaned entries.
PaulKlerkx I would disagree with that statement... I am able to run the tool against my co-located site server/distribution point content library just fine. As a matter of fact, when I tried last week, it successfully deleted about 6 GB worth of orphaned software update-related content. Having said that, I also have a couple of these disabled (greyed-out) packages in my library, just like you do, and these weren't deleted. However, I didn't run into the error that you experienced either. In my opinion, even though it might not fix your problem, you should be able to run the tool successfully nevertheless.