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Well, look my problem is weird, I have a view that lists content of a desired type, it is listing all the content of a type, I have deleted from the drupal admin UI a node of that type, but the view is still listing the node I have deleted. If I try to access to that node from the view, I get an entityMetadataWrapperException

Now I cannot see the node in the drupal content admin UI.

I know the nid of this node (its 22) I need to delete it manually from the database, how to achieve this, is necesary a custom module or something?

Thank you very much for your help.

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    try clearing the cache
    – msmani
    Jun 17, 2014 at 17:47
  • no that is not the solution, I have this problem like a week ago, and clear cache neither run cron worked
    – svelandiag
    Jun 17, 2014 at 17:52
  • I do not understand under what circumstances can a node be available in Views output even after getting deleted through admin UI. Only way i think its possible is if the output is coming from the views cache table. But you are saying clearing cache didn't help.
    – Ranjan
    Jun 17, 2014 at 18:27
  • Have you done any manual SQL updates / deletes? If so, you may have an inconsistent database and a entity reference, etc, field that points to the deleted node that didn't get cleaned up properly.
    – mpdonadio ♦
    Jun 17, 2014 at 20:02
  • No I just did it through the UI, but I think the problem is that my hosting had a low php_memory_limit maybe that has something to do with this issue, however Im sure the node still exists due to I can list the node using id filtering in a vew, I did the test
    – svelandiag
    Jun 17, 2014 at 20:04

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You should use node_delete:

<?php
$nid='22'; // $node id , which you want to delete;
node_delete($nid);
?>

This function from the API does the necessary cleaning up when a node is deleted.

You can stick this in a custom module, or enable the PHP filter and just have it a node where you allow PHP code.

If you use the PHP Filter method, remember to disable it when done. You don't want it permanently enabled on a production site.

You may also want to repair your database, just to make sure. The screenshot below shows how to use phpMyAdmin to repair the {sessions} table. You can also use to repair the {node} table

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  • Thank you very much this is the right answer, I just created a module that implements hook_cron and in the next run cron I could delete the node and now the view is not listing this node. Thanks =)
    – svelandiag
    Jun 17, 2014 at 20:56
  • It doesn't look like this works if the node to be deleted contains something that crashes the server. I don't know what it is exactly that I'm dealing with because when I try to view the node I get server error 500. I need to delete it because it's causing the Search index cron process to fail
    – Dan Mantyla
    Apr 30, 2018 at 18:53

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