DOC: Rights.bak File Is Not Necessarily Present

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows, versions 4.0
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows NT, versions 4.0
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Windows 95, versions 4.0
• Microsoft Visual Basic Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0

SUMMARY

You'll find a reference to a Rights.bak file in Chapter 8 of the Visual SourceSafe Users Guide (available in Books Online under the Help menu) in the "Backing Up and Restoring Visual SourceSafe" section. This reference states that the Rights.bak file is an exact, up-to-date copy of the Rights.dat file and can be simply renamed if the Rights.dat file is lost or corrupted.

However, a Rights.bak file does not get created in Visual SourceSafe 4.0. If the Rights.dat file is corrupted or lost, ensure that Rights.dat is not in the DATA directory, and run DDCONV from the command prompt as follows in order to create a new Rights.dat:

DDCONV <path to VSS\DATA directory>

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbdocerr kbSSafe400 kbVBp400
Version : WINDOWS:4.0
Platform : WINDOWS
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