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Q138298: INFO: Visual SourceSafe System Capacities and Specifications

Article: Q138298
Product(s): Microsoft SourceSafe
Version(s): 4.0,5.0,6.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbFAQ kbSsafe600FAQ
Last Modified: 26-JUL-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows, versions 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 
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SUMMARY
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This article contains information concerning the system capacities of Visual
SourceSafe.

NOTE: All capacities are related to versions 4.0 and 5.0 of Visual SourceSafe
unless otherwise noted.

MORE INFORMATION
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General Specifications & Limits
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- Users running Visual SourceSafe concurrently: Unlimited.

- Files and projects in a SourceSafe Database: approx. 4 billion.

- Files and projects directly in a single project: 8191 (however, for
  performance reasons, Microsoft recommends that there be no more than a few
  hundred files in a single project).

- Nested project Depth: 15 (this is a recommended limit. You may add more than
  15 projects, but Microsoft only supports nested projects 15 levels deep).

- Bytes in a file:

  Visual SourceSafe 4.0: 64 megabytes.
  Visual SourceSafe 5.0: 2 gigabytes.
  Log file: 2 gigabytes.

- Lines in the Windows View Command: 64,000.

- Versions in a file or project history: 32,767 (the count on a project history
  does not include file Updates in that project).

- Bytes in the Windows history display: 32,767.

- Lines in a project history: 8191.

- Files correlated in a project history: 8191.

String Lengths
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- Project Path (for example, $/Word/Spelling): 259 Characters.

- Filename: 255 characters (all platforms except MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows). A
  short (8.3) name is also stored for compatibility with the FAT file system.
  Names are not case sensitive.

- Username: 31 characters.

- Password:

  Visual SourceSafe 4.0: 15 characters.
  Visual SourceSafe 5.0: 31 characters.

- File or project Label: 31 characters.

- String to scan for when using "Find in Files": 63 characters.

- Line in the SS.ini file: 511 characters.

- Length of a checkout comment: 63 characters.

- Length of a check in or label comment:

  GUI = 4095 characters
  Command Line = 511 characters

Additional query words: vbwin 4.00 5.00 Windows 95 vss limitation capacity

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Keywords          : kbFAQ kbSsafe600FAQ 
Technology        : kbSSafeSearch kbAudDeveloper kbSSafe600 kbSSafe400 kbSSafe500
Version           : :4.0,5.0,6.0
Issue type        : kbinfo

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