Microsoft KB Archive/230702

= FIX: Errors When Renaming or Deleting a Project in Visual SourceSafe =

Article ID: 230702

Article Last Modified on 8/7/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q230702



SYMPTOMS
When permanently deleting or renaming a project in the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) Explorer, you may receive a series of errors:

File or project not found

followed by:

1E String load failure, string #%d



RESOLUTION
This feature is available in the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

WORKAROUND
These operations can be performed at the command line. For example, the following operation is for the delete permanently operation:

ss destroy $/myproj

The following is for the rename operation:

ss rename $/myproj $/yourproj

Note that this produces multiple "File or project not found" errors, but it will complete.

An alternative workaround exists in the case of permanently deleting files. The error messages do not occur when deleting without destroying and then purging from the Visual SourceSafe Explorer.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the next service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.

For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed

To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/Aa718353.aspx



MORE INFORMATION
This problem is intermittent and has not been consistently reproduced by Microsoft. This happens only on projects immediately below the root ($/) project in databases that have been updated to the new Visual SourceSafe 6.0 database format.

Additional query words: sp4 destroy string load failure

Keywords: kbqfe kbhotfixserver kbbug kbcommandline kbfix kbssexplorer kbvs600sp4fix kbvs600sp5fix KB230702

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