Article ID: 230702
Article Last Modified on 8/7/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q230702
SYMPTOMS
When permanently deleting or renaming a project in the Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) Explorer, you may receive a series of errors:
followed by:
RESOLUTION
This feature is available in the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why
WORKAROUND
These operations can be performed at the command line. For example, the following operation is for the delete permanently operation:
ss destroy $/myproj
The following is for the rename operation:
ss rename $/myproj $/yourproj
Note that this produces multiple "File or project not found" errors, but it will complete.
An alternative workaround exists in the case of permanently deleting files. The error messages do not occur when deleting without destroying and then purging from the Visual SourceSafe Explorer.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the next service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.
For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why
194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed
To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
MORE INFORMATION
This problem is intermittent and has not been consistently reproduced by Microsoft. This happens only on projects immediately below the root ($/) project in databases that have been updated to the new Visual SourceSafe 6.0 database format.
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