BUG: Errors when Renaming or Deleting a Project in Visual SourceSafe

ID: Q230702

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows 6.0

SYMPTOMS

When deleting permanently or renaming a project in the VSS Explorer, you may receive a series of errors:

File or project not found

followed by

1E String load failure, string #%d

RESOLUTION

These operations can be performed at the command line. For example, the following operation is for the delete permanently operation:


ss destroy $/myproj

And this one is for the rename:


ss rename $/myproj $/yourproj

Note that this will produce multiple "File or project not found" errors, but it will complete.

An alternative workaround exists in the case of permanently deleting files, the error messages do not occur when deleting without destroying and then purging from the Visual SourceSafe Explorer.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

This problem is intermittent and has not been consistently reproduced by Microsoft. This happens only on projects immediately below the root ($/) project in databases that have been updated to the new Visual SourceSafe 6.0 database format.

Additional query words: destroy string load failure


Keywords          : kbCommandLine kbSSafe600bug kbSSExplorer kbGrpSSafe 
Version           : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: June 4, 1999