What is the best way to delete or re-assign the orphaned searches?. I have around more than 100 orphaned searches which i need to re-assign them to someone other users. I read this can be done be deleting the searches directly from limits.meta file But i am not sure which is the exact file file i can use for this.
You can search through the local.meta files and re-assign the orphaned searches to a user that still exists.
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/Resolveorphanedsearches
For deleting OR re-owning the scheduled-search or view