Microsoft KB Archive/153502

= PRB: Unable to Open Project Error When Running Analyze =

Article ID: 153502

Article Last Modified on 7/6/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q153502



SYMPTOMS
Running Analyze returns the following error message:

"Unable to open project \a\aaaaaaaa" Continue Y?



CAUSE
The analyze utility is unable to find the database.



RESOLUTION
Ensure that Analyze is pointing to the correct database location. It should include DATA. For example, if the database resides on a file server mapped to drive F:

Analyze -i- f:\VSS\data

The full syntax is:

ANALYZE [-B ] [-C] [-F] [-I-] [-V] [-X] [-?] [-H] 

This particular message is corrected in later revisions of Analyze.exe. However, later versions of Analyze (specifically 1309 or above) also fail if you don't include the data directory as part of the entire path to the Database. In that case, the following error appears:

"File '\version.dat' not found"

where the Version.dat file is located in the data directory. For more information about the newest analyze utility, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

190881 SAMPLE: Analyze6.exe Utility for Visual SourceSafe



STATUS
This behavior is by design.

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