Title: Google Search Console attachment “not found” errors
Last modified: July 10, 2018

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# Google Search Console attachment “not found” errors

 *  Resolved [ryania](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryania/)
 * (@ryania)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-attachment-not-found-errors/)
 * I have hundreds of “not found” crawl errors. See the link.
 * Is this due to the Yoast issue from a couple months ago.
 * I have the Yoast search index purge installed. Should I be manually running something?
 * If not and this is related to that issue, why are these in there?
 * Thanks
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   to see the link]_

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 *  [Md Mazedul Islam Khan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mazedulislamkhan/)
 * (@mazedulislamkhan)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-attachment-not-found-errors/#post-10481647)
 * This is to be expected as the purge plugin makes all the media (attachment) pages
   to 410 content deleted to remove all of these from the search results. So, the
   crawl errors you are seeing in the search results are perfectly normal. You can
   ignore this.
 * Installing this plugin will do the following two things:
    - Every attachment URL will return a 410 status code.
    - A static XML sitemap, containing all the attachment URLs on a given site will
      be created. The post modified date for each of those URLs is the activation
      date and time of the plugin.
    - The XML sitemap with recent post modified date will make sure that Google 
      spiders all those URLs again. The 410 status code will make sure Google takes
      them out of its search results in the fastest way possible.
 * After six months the attachment URLs should be gone from the search results. 
   You should then remove the search index purge plugin, and keep the redirect setting
   of the attachment URLs set to “Yes”.
 *  Thread Starter [ryania](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryania/)
 * (@ryania)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-attachment-not-found-errors/#post-10481658)
 * Thank you.
 * Is it safe for me to mark them as fixed on GSC? I don’t want the entries cluttering
   up things.
 *  [devnihil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devnihil/)
 * (@devnihil)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-attachment-not-found-errors/#post-10484381)
 * Yes it is safe to mark the attachment URL crawl errors as fixed. Please note 
   that these may re-appear in GSC and we have more information on this here: [https://kb.yoast.com/kb/why-are-404-errors-returning-even-after-being-marked-as-fixed/](https://kb.yoast.com/kb/why-are-404-errors-returning-even-after-being-marked-as-fixed/)
 *  Thread Starter [ryania](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryania/)
 * (@ryania)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-console-attachment-not-found-errors/#post-10484394)
 * Thanks so much

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