How to Repair “Cannot complete this action” error?

This situation basically occurs when you try to backup, restore and migrate the sites between two server farms. These action SharePoint errors are caused by missing system files or broken system registry structures. This sign is very critical of an unstable system which is typically caused by improper maintenance of the computer. Backup is the most important method to recover from corruption of SharePoint database. Usually the biggest problem which you may face while migration site between two farms are that the user ID get screwed for good and then it breaks loose. Therefore you have to select some other SharePoint recovery methods when the back gets damaged by itself. However you may not restore data by using backup. But when the process completes, still data is not seen when SharePoint site is open. This is the symbol of corruption of SharePoint database that forces you to take SharePoint database recovery solutions when there is no backup copy of the database.

Symptoms faced:

The error “cannot complete this action” are caused by the corruption of data of SharePoint or by missing system files or broken system registry structures. This all error can be happen due to unexpected system shutdown, virus attack, and backup errors.

Solution:

There is some of solution which would work for this type of error. Here are some SharePoint repair steps to follow. These are:

First, open SQL server Management studio and select new query fom the menu bar and then run the following-

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• ALTER DATABASE<database name> SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
• DBCC CHECKDB <'database name',> REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS)
• ALTER DATABASE <database name> SET MULTI_USER

All these will help you to repair the corruption of SharePoint database. After doing all the steps, create a backup of the SharePoint site.

With the above mentioned methods, if you face some problems to fix the issues, then you need SharePoint recovery tool, so as to solve the problem. With this recovery tool, you can easily recover documents and site in critical solution. This tool allows the user to retrieve SharePoint database like tables, documents etc.