I just encountered some errors accessing a repository, so I ran
"analyze" on it.  It ran for about three minutes, found problems, and
said that I should run it again using the "-F" option to fix things.
So, I did so.  It ran for about three minutes, listed a bunch of

Situation:
Another of our sites uses .NET 2003 and has SS installed on a server
and they use it to check their code ( they have .NET 2003 Enterprise
Developer ) in and out for versioning, etc.

I was wondering, is it possible to install VSS, without installing all of
VS6?
Since, we do not develop VB code as such, however we do develop a lot of VBA
for Excel/Access/Word etc...and we wanted to have some sort of Versioning

Is there any way to print out the VSS structure.  Our regulators would like
to see it and screenprints are a pain.

I was given an existing VSS installation to administer today (the previous
owner has left the company).  I have the password for the "Admin" user.  
However, the "Rights by Project" option is greyed out.  What would be causing
this?

Hi all..
I have created some projects using my own Visual Studio .NET 2005
environment. Source Safe database is in a centralized server under Windows
Server 2003.

Using version 6, I get the following error when adding a user:
Invalid DOS Path: \\server-name\vsS\VSS_PROJFolder\users
I have check and I have permissions to write to this folder.  I notice that
a folder gets created for the new user and the users.txt file is updated with

I'm having a problem with the IVSSItem interface, using the VS2005 Beta2
interop assemblies (MS.VS.SourceSafe.Interop) in a C# project. I am able to
use the VSSDatabase class to connect to a local store and retrieve the
version history for a source file. This all works great and ...

We have a network installation of VSS and the person installing it resigned,
did not leave the password. Is there any way I can get into the administrator
Program?
Thanks in advance,

I am using VSS 6.0 with Access 97 and I get this error: Expected: 'End' when
I try to build my Access database. The objects can't be extracted from the
VSS database and are omitted from the build. This so far has been the only
form of corruption I have encountered. I ran ANALYZE ...

I noticed in my VSS database that there are files checkout to someone who is
no longer in the company. Is there any way to undo that checkout? If not,
what would be a good way to handle the situration?
We believe that the file version in VSS is the latest version and that no

Hey gang,
I'm drawing a serious blank on this one.  I did this a few times in the
past, but it has completely slipped my mind now.
I had been asked to evaluate source control tools, other than SourceSafe.  

Hi, I am posting again, I posted a message with the info below the ---
hoping someone would be able to help me. Anyway here is more info,
while working in SourceSafe if I click on Help then contents it is
supposed to go to the VSS online documentation but instead I get the

We have upgraded our VSS to version 6.0d obtained from MSDN Subscription
site, and we found that when we offer a Get Command from the command line
utility, it reports version not found for some destroyed files / projects.
I searched the web and someone point me to this article

How does one make VSS put the current file's history and revision and
version number information in a comment at the top of the file,
automatically?
In PVCS and Unix VCS, if the source file has a comment in it which contains