INFO: Description of Files in the DATA Directory

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows versions 4.0, 4.0a, 5.0, 6.0

SUMMARY

The following files can be found in the \Data directory for your Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Server Installation (versions 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x):

• Names.dat



• Rights.dat



• Status.dat



• UM.dat



• Version.dat

• CRCS.dat



• Labels (Folder)

MORE INFORMATION

Following is a brief description for each of the files listed above:

Names.Dat:
Names.dat stores the namespace information for a file.

Rights.dat:
The Rights.dat file has a list of rights assignments for each user issued through the Administrator utility either under Rights by Project or Rights Assignment for User on the Tools menu.

Status.dat:
The Status.dat file is used to optimize the GUI interface. There is a 4 byte entry in this file for every item in Visual SourceSafe.

UM.dat:
UM.dat stores the users' names, their encrypted passwords, and whether the user has read-only or read-write permissions. This file also contains a 2-byte representation of the database version used by the Visual SourceSafe Explorer.

Version.dat:
Version.dat stores a 2-byte version number of the database used by the Analyze utility.

CRCS.dat
CRCS.dat contains CRC information for items in the database.

Labels (Folder):
The Labels folder contains the Label information for every labeled item in the Visual SourceSafe database.

REFERENCES

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

Q168248 INFO: Description of SourceSafe .DAT files

Additional query words: rebuild rebuilding fix error

Keywords : kbSSafe400 kbSSafe500 kbSSafe600
Version : WINDOWS:4.0,4.0a,5.0,6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo