Microsoft KB Archive/147906

= DOC: Rights.bak File Is Not Necessarily Present =

Article ID: 147906

Article Last Modified on 12/9/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 16-bit Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 32-Bit Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q147906



SUMMARY
You'll find a reference to a Rights.bak file in Chapter 8 of the Visual SourceSafe Users Guide (available in Books Online under the Help menu) in the "Backing Up and Restoring Visual SourceSafe" section. This reference states that the Rights.bak file is an exact, up-to-date copy of the Rights.dat file and can be simply renamed if the Rights.dat file is lost or corrupted.

However, a Rights.bak file does not get created in Visual SourceSafe 4.0. If the Rights.dat file is corrupted or lost, ensure that Rights.dat is not in the DATA directory, and run DDCONV from the command prompt as follows in order to create a new Rights.dat:

DDCONV 

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