The program is so unbearably slow it takes 5 minutes to
checkout a file. Whereas at the office it's almost
instaneous
ANyone know how this can be improved? Is there a way to

some time ago i read that there will be a new version of source safe that
allows source control via the internet.
is there any information as to the release date? will it be with whidbey?
it is important for me because i need that functionality, and if it takes

I have just installed VSS 6.0d onto a Win Server 2003.  I then ran netsetup from this server machine and installed to a client machine.  The install seemed to go just fine.  I have successfully created a database on the server.  The VSS files are now on the client machine, ...

I am having a strange problem in using SourceSafe 6.0. My project is created, I have set my working folder, everything looks good. The problem is that when I try to edit a file, SourceSafe will close immediately. I have tried to use the following
- SourceSafe Editor: Never gets to ...

I have an existing ASP.NET application, which I develop in VS.NET
2002.
All files are under source control in one VSS project.
Now I want to include a folder in the project with some files in it

Is it possible to have local VIEWS of the repository?
So Person 1 can see his own custom VIEW mapping than that from anther person
yet the repository stays the same?
Will this feature be added into the next VSS in 2004?

I have set-up stored procedures with Vss and Visual Studio on my machine but
how do I set-up the same stored procedures in vss on another machine

I want to recursively get a whole project based on a label. The project (and
therefore all its files) were labelled a while ago. I click on the project
in the project explorer (or any of it's subprojects), and display its
history. I choose the label from the history and press the ...

Does anybody know how to extract entire .NET solution from VSS? I
disconnect from source control and even delete all .*scc files but
upon opening of the solution I get message about solution being still
under source control but...

I've never used Source Safe before now, but now I have a
need. I'll be developing a whole new version of an
application, and want to use source-safe as a nice, neat
storage area for my old code.

Can someone please help me to locate the SSPURGE utility
for the VSS? I would like to purge the deleted items
recursively thoroughout my database.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Is there anyway to do a branch at the folder level.  It
seems that I have to do it file by file.  We tend to share
alot of files before delivering them to a customer and
then want to branch the whole project.

 We currenty have a Vss Database that supports both Vss 5
and Vss 6 formats. We want to upgrade the database to
exclusively be for Vss 6 to take advantage of performance
options and label promotion.

I have a project $/A with 4 sub-projects $/A/1 - $/A/4. During the
developement of this project, I labeled the different versions of
project $/A.
If I now try to get an old, labeled version of this project from the

I am stuck with administering a database with over 20,000 distinct
binary files in it.  (mostly xls, doc, pdf, etc.)
I need to be able to automate a process of archiving/purging any
previous vesions of any files.