Microsoft KB Archive/231412

= INFO: Limitations of PVCS_SS.exe =

Article ID: 231412

Article Last Modified on 7/18/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q231412



SUMMARY
There are two potential problems using the PVCS_SS conversion utility:
 * The utility does not work on PVCS databases later than version 5.2.1 that have Long File Names (LFNs). LFN's are file names that are longer than the 8.3 convention or contain spaces
 * The utility does not work when converting to a Visual Source Safe (VSS) 6.0 database format.



MORE INFORMATION
There is no consistent error that is returned when the conversion fails. Among the error messages/problems that have been reported are:


 * "Invalid / corrupted log file"
 * An unreadable series of binary characters
 * "PVCS Log File May be Corrupt"

In this case the possible workarounds are:
 * Convert the PVCS database to an earlier version
 * Rename all LFN's in the PVCS database
 * Manually convert the database by recursively getting all file versions and adding the versions to VSS

If the utility returns the following error:

Incompatible database version

To resolve this, try running DDUPD -undo on the target database. If the conversion still fails, you need to create a new VSS database, choosing not to create it in the new database format.

