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Q230702: FIX: Errors When Renaming or Deleting a Project in VSS

Article: Q230702
Product(s): Microsoft SourceSafe
Version(s): 6.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbCommandLine kbSSafe600bug kbSSExplorer kbDSupport kbGrpDSSSafe kbSSafe600qfe kbVS600s
Last Modified: 27-MAY-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows, version 6.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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When permanently deleting or renaming a project in the Microsoft Visual
SourceSafe (VSS) Explorer, you may receive a series of errors:

  File or project not found

followed by:

  1E String load failure, string #%d

RESOLUTION
==========

This feature is available in the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0. For
additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:

  Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

WORKAROUND
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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
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products 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 article
numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

  Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed

You can download the latest Visual Studio service pack from the following
Microsoft Web site:

  Visual Studio Product Updates
  (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates.asp)

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.

Additional query words: sp4 destroy string load failure

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Keywords          : kbCommandLine kbSSafe600bug kbSSExplorer kbDSupport kbGrpDSSSafe kbSSafe600qfe kbVS600sp4fix kbVS600sp5fix 
Technology        : kbSSafeSearch kbAudDeveloper kbSSafe600
Version           : :6.0
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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