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mlienexpertimecom
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Feb 10, 2022

Recover a root site placed in the archives

Hi folks! Does anyone know how to find and recover a root site which has been archived? I wanted to replace my classic SharePoint site by a new communication site however, during the swap, the Clas...
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MarcusEnglund
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Jun 27, 2022

mlienexpertimecom , We have the same issue now. The Site Swap failed and now, both the old root site and the new communications site is in Archives. No one can access teams files... I hear even OneDrive gets affected by the lack of a root site. And still no replies to your question.

So, there are a lot of articles explaining how to restore a deleted root site. Our site is not deleted, just moved to "/sites/archive_2022...". 

 

We need instructions on how to

1) Redo the SiteSwap but without an existing root site.

2) Create a new site as a root site. (cannot find anything on this)

 

Did you resolve your issue?

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    kalleigh
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    Jun 29, 2022

    MarcusEnglund This same thing literally just happened to me this morning. No fix yet? I don't understand why there's an option to recover a deleted file but not an archived one? 

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