I am running Visual Studio 2003 connected to a Visual
SourceSafe database (6.0d).  Visual Studio says that I
have a file checked out that is not checked out in
SourceSafe. In Studio, I have the options to check it out

I would like to tranfer a visual studio solution from one
machine to another, WITHOUT checking in checked-out files.
Anybody ever done this before, or know how to do it?
Thanks

I have a new server that has Windows 2003 server
installed. Will VSS 6.0C work with it?

After using VSS here for several years, I have suddenly found that I
cannot open multiple documents.  The first document opens correctly,
but when I try to open another document, I get the message, "The
document name or path is not valid.  Try these suggestions:  Check the

I want to move the Visual Source safe database to another server.
I suppose I can Export/Restore the VS database.
But how I can tell the existing solution to use the new database ?
There is a file named mssccprj.scc which contain the path to the

I want to set the Working Folder for an VSS project using
SS Workfold [Project] [Folder] command.
The problem apear only when the [Project] contain SPACES !!!
I have tried many variants but without success:

We use PCNFS to mount a Unix drive containing a shared
work area.  We have multiple users that have the smae
default Unix group and all of the directories in the
shared workarea are writeable by the group.  Each user

how to use vss between the server and clind
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I am attempting to share and pin a version of a
SourceSafe project to another project.  Following the
instructions, I locate the desired labeled version in the
project history, clcik share and set up the target folder.

I have a simple requirement. For a VSS Project folder, I
need to generate the Version No. for each file in a VSS
repository.
Right now, I am able to generate History for a single

VSS has several messages (e.g. "the directory contains a writable version
of the file...") which have the "apply to all items".
How far does this checkbox go ? All items in the current directory ?
All items in the current action ?

I'm trying to share and branch a file to a separate
project directory and I get the following message:
File .... is already open.
This file is actually the project root folder that I'm

I heard thru some articles on source control software,
many seems to comment that VSS has problem when its
database reach to a certain size. Is this true?
Please read this article

I've installed VSS 6.0 on my workstation, but I need to
administer the project files, in addition to adding
developers and setting accessibility rules (read/write).  
What is the procedure for implementing this program?

Restoring archived files generates an error message "Too
many file handles open". The files are not restored.
This error should be fixed in Service Pack 4 for Microsoft
Visual SourceSafe.