Article ID: 166261
Article Last Modified on 10/15/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q166261
SYMPTOMS
When you try to check out a file, the following message appears, even though nobody has the file checked out:
CAUSE
The Status.dat file is corrupted.
RESOLUTION
The following resolutions work: Run Analyze -f twice.
-or-
Create a backup copy of the Status.dat file, and then remove the Status.dat file from the DATA directory and run Analyze -f.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
MORE INFORMATION
Although a number of users have reported this problem, it has not been consistently reproduced. In several cases, it occurred when a mixture of versions 4.0 and 5.0 clients accessed the same database.
REFERENCES
For more information about the Analyze utility, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
190881 SAMPLE: Analyze6.exe Utility for Visual SourceSafe
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