DOCUMENT:Q304687 10-MAR-2002 [ssafe] TITLE :HOWTO: SSAFE: Select Nondefault Database Location PRODUCT :Microsoft SourceSafe PROD/VER:: OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS:kbsetup kbDSupport kbGrpDSSSafe ====================================================================== This article discusses a Beta release of a Microsoft product. The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice. No formal product support is available from Microsoft for this Beta product. For information about obtaining support for a Beta release, please see the documentation that is included with the Beta product files, or check the Web location from which you downloaded the release. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0c ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= When you are installing Visual SourceSafe Standalone Server or Shared Database Server for the first time, you are not given the option to install your Visual SourceSafe Database to a location of your choice. Instead, the database will be created in the default location for your chosen setup path. To install instead to a different location, click Change Folder and select your installation location. NOTE: If it is a new folder that you are installing to, you must create the new folder before continuing with installation of Visual SourceSafe because no option to create a folder is provided during installation. MORE INFORMATION ================ The alternative to this is to go ahead with the default installation. When it is complete, open the Visual SourceSafe Admin utility: from the Start menu, point to Programs, point to Visual SourceSafe, and then click Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Admin. Continue with the following steps: 1. The default admin password is blank. Change this to make the Admin tools secure. 2. From the Tools menu, click Create Database. 3. Click browse and navigate to the location where you would like to install your database. (You can choose to create a new folder from this menu as well.) 4. If all of your clients are using the 6.0 version of the Visual SourceSafe Client, select New 6.0 Database Format. (Keep in mind that if any of your users have an older version of the client software, those users will not be able to access the database.) 5. You should receive a message stating "Database Creation Complete". Click OK. 6. From the File menu, click Open SourceSafe Database. 7. Click browse and browse to the new database location. Select the Srcsafe.ini file, and then click OK. 8. Choose a friendly name for your database list. The default name will be the complete path to the Srcsafe.ini file. Click OK. 9. In the Open SourceSafe Database window, select the database that you just created and click open. 10. You are now in the Administrator tool for the new database and can perform such tasks as adding users and setting permissions. REFERENCES ========== For more information on creating a new database within Visual SourceSafe, see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: Q238155 HOWTO: Create a New database in Visual SourceSafe Additional query words: kbSSafe ====================================================================== Keywords : kbsetup kbDSupport kbGrpDSSSafe Technology : kbSSafeSearch kbAudDeveloper kbSSafe600C Version : : Issue type : kbhowto ============================================================================= THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. MICROSOFT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY. Copyright Microsoft Corporation 2002.