PRB: Files Missing or Not Displayed in GUI Interface
ID: Q155584
|
The information in this article applies to:
-
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows versions 5.0, 6.0
-
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0
SYMPTOMS
Projects are displayed without any files even though Visual SourceSafe
Explorer normally displays a list of projects in its database and any
associated files within the projects.
WORKAROUND
If the projects are displayed without any files, find and fix the problem
with the following troubleshooting steps:
- Determine if Status Search is in use. From the View menu, selecting a
Status Search and choosing a particular user may result in an empty
file list. This means a particular user does not have any files in the
selected project. To cancel the query, select the View menu and click
Cancel Search. Cancel Search will be grayed out if a Query is not in
progress.
- Determine if Rights are turned off through the Visual SourceSafe Admin
utility. In the Visual SourceSafe Admin utility, choose Options and
Project Security from the Tools menu, and clear the "Enable Project
Security" check box. In Visual SourceSafe, choose Security Setup from
the Users menu, and clear the "Enable Security System" check box.
If the files still do not appear and the user has at least "Read" rights,
then there is probably corruption in one of the .dat files. Copy the
Version.dat, Rights.dat, and Status.dat files from the Vss\Data directory
to a backup directory. Run DDCONV -S <path to Data directory> to rebuild
the .dat files. Alternatively run Analyze.exe with the -f switch. Users of
Visual SourceSafe version 4.0 should obtain the latest version of Analyze
and DDCONV and should obtain build 1309 of Visual SourceSafe from Microsoft
Technical Support.
NOTE: Be careful of serial numbers on versions prior to 3.02. To view the
version number, choose About from the Help menu.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
REFERENCES
For additional information, please see the following article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q190881 SAMPLE: Analyze6.exe Utility for Visual SourceSafe
Additional query words:
Keywords : kbSSafe400 kbSSafe500 kbSSafe600
Version :
Platform :
Issue type : kbprb
|