FIX: "Version not found" After Running ssarc -d -v

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When you choose Show History on a file that was archived with the -d -v switches, you receive the following error:

Version not found

RESOLUTION

Use the ss history <path to the file> command from command prompt.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in Visual SourceSafe 5.x Explorer. This bug has been corrected in Visual SourceSafe 6.0

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Create a project and add a file to this project.



2. Create some versions for the file.



3. Branch this file to a new project. Note the version at which you are branching.



4. Delete the original file from Visual SourceSafe.



5. Create some more versions to the new (branched) file.



6. ssarc -d -v# <new file> , making sure that v# is a number greater than the version number at which the file was branched.



7. From Visual SourceSafe Explorer, right-click on the new file and click Show History.

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q176875 INFO: The Primary Functions of Ssarc.exe and Ssrestor.exe

Additional query words: kbDSupport

Keywords : kbSSafe500bug kbSSafe600fix kbSSExplorer
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Issue type : kbbug