Microsoft KB Archive/201394

= PRB: Only Project Folders Restored from Archive =

Article ID: 201394

Article Last Modified on 5/1/2001

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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 Q201394



SYMPTOMS
An attempt to restore an archive to a location other than where it was archived from causes the SSRESTOR utility to report

 does not exist and the archive file contains only version ranges

and only the project structure of the archived files exists in Visual SourceSafe Explorer.



CAUSE
You tried to restore an archive that contains earlier versions of projects/files but not the latest versions.

Visual SourceSafe uses Reverse Delta technology to store only the latest version of a file, along with the information to recreate older versions of the file when needed. When you archive using the -v switch option, you only archive the changes.



RESOLUTION
Archive and restore the remaining versions of the file or project prior to restoring the archive that contains the earlier versions. Use the rollback function if you only want the earlier versions saved to the new location.



STATUS
This behavior is by design.



MORE INFORMATION
Archiving with the -v switch is best used to remove old versions of files in order to recover disk space or to make the Show History command work more quickly (because it will have fewer versions to display). To move whole projects to different databases while preserving history, archive and restore the entire project.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

 * 1) Archive a file or files using the -v switch.
 * 2) Try restoring the archived files to a different Visual SourceSafe database.

