Microsoft KB Archive/155584

= PRB: Files Missing or Not Displayed in GUI Interface =

Article ID: 155584

Article Last Modified on 5/4/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q155584





SYMPTOMS
Projects are displayed without any files even though Visual SourceSafe Explorer normally displays a list of projects in its database and any associated files within the projects.



WORKAROUND
If the projects are displayed without any files, find and fix the problem with the following troubleshooting steps:


 * 1) Determine if Status Search is in use. From the View menu, selecting a Status Search and choosing a particular user may result in an empty file list. This means a particular user does not have any files in the selected project. To cancel the query, select the View menu and click Cancel Search. Cancel Search will be grayed out if a Query is not in progress.
 * 2) Determine if Rights are turned off through the Visual SourceSafe Admin utility. In the Visual SourceSafe Admin utility, choose Options and Project Security from the Tools menu, and clear the "Enable Project Security" check box. In Visual SourceSafe, choose Security Setup from the Users menu, and clear the "Enable Security System" check box.

If the files still do not appear and the user has at least "Read" rights, then there is probably corruption in one of the .dat files. Copy the Version.dat, Rights.dat, and Status.dat files from the Vss\Data directory to a backup directory. Run DDCONV -S  to rebuild the .dat files. Alternatively run Analyze.exe with the -f switch. Users of Visual SourceSafe version 4.0 should obtain the latest version of Analyze and DDCONV and should obtain build 1309 of Visual SourceSafe from Microsoft Technical Support.

NOTE: Be careful of serial numbers on versions prior to 3.02. To view the version number, choose About from the Help menu.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.

