Microsoft KB Archive/220969

= Description of files in the Data directory =

Article ID: 220969

Article Last Modified on 7/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


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

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This article was previously published under Q220969



SUMMARY
The following files can be found in the Data directory for your Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Server Installation (versions 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x):
 * Names.dat
 * Rights.dat
 * Status.dat
 * UM.dat
 * Version.dat

The following files and folders are new for version 6.0:
 * CRCS.dat (file)
 * Labels (folder)



MORE INFORMATION
Following is a brief description for each of the files and folders that are mentioned in the "Summary" section.

Names.dat

Names.dat stores the namespace information for a file.

Rights.dat

The Rights.dat file has a list of rights assignments for each user issued through the Administrator utility either under Rights by Project or Rights Assignment for User on the Tools menu.

Status.dat

The Status.dat file is used to optimize the GUI interface. There is a 4 byte entry in this file for every item in Visual SourceSafe.

UM.dat

UM.dat stores the users' names, their encrypted passwords, and whether the user has read-only or read-write permissions. This file also contains a 2-byte representation of the database version used by the Visual SourceSafe Explorer.

Version.dat

Version.dat stores a 2-byte version number of the database used by the Analyze utility.

CRCS.dat

CRCS.dat contains CRC information for items in the database.

Labels

The Labels folder contains the Label information for every labeled item in the Visual SourceSafe database.

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Keywords: kbinfo KB220969

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