Microsoft KB Archive/941195

= Visual SourceSafe 2005 Analyze Utility Unexpectedly Stops Responding on Pass 3 of an Analyze Run =

Article ID: 941195

Article Last Modified on 8/28/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 2005 Standard Edition, when used with:
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Standard Edition

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Source: Microsoft Support



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Action
When running the Analyze.exe utility to perform regular database maintenance against a Visual SourceSafe data repository; the utility may stop responding during Pass 3 (Advanced Reference Verification)



Result
No data loss occurs, the tool simply stops running.



Cause
There is corruption of the reference paths which maintain the link between child and parent projects and files.



Resolution
Run analyze using the -refv6 flag. This will revert to the Visual SourceSafe 6.0 version of analyze and stop Advanced Reference Verification.

NOTE: Whenever possible, please run the Visual SourceSafe Analyze.exe utility local on the server which is home to the VSS Share. This will dramatically increase the performance of the tool. If this is not possible, use the second example below.

Examples:

VSS Analyze.exe run localy

c:\program files\microsoft visual sourcesafe\analyze.exe -f -refv6 -v4 c:\vssshare\vssdatabase1\data

VSS Analyze.exe run against a remote share

c:\program files\microsoft visual sourcesafe\analyze.exe -f -refv6 -v4 |\\vssshare\vssdatabase\data

You will then need to run the Datawizard utility as a stand-alone application or have Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Support manually repair the corruption. Depending on how extensive this corruption is and the size of your Visual SourceSafe repository, this may not be covered within the scope of a standard support incident. Please call Microsoft Developer Support for more information.



MoreInformation
Using the Visual SourceSafe Command Line:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/asxkfzy4(VS.80).aspx

The Visual SourceSafe Analyze Utility documentation:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ysxsfw4x(VS.80).aspx

Korby Parnell's description of what exactly DataWiz is

http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/archive/2005/08/10/450042.aspx



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