Tested on: SharePoint Server 2016, SharePoint Server 2019
We had a strange issue with our Search Service Application, everything in the Central Administration was green but crawls were running forever without finding any items or throwing any error in the Crawl Log or the ULS log. We wanted to avoid rebuilding the whole Search Service application because there was another third party application that used the current SSA and it would have to be reconfigured as well. Also we did not want to lose the search index.
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