Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

Register Log in
  • Congratulations Rhinorhino on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Unable to define/update master copy

Status
Not open for further replies.
matheisk

matheisk

Programmer
Joined
Aug 8, 2001
Messages
3
Location
FI
I'm new to vss so bear with me.
My problem is that I don't seem to be able to update the master copy of my vb project files.
I have done the following:
In VSS 6.0
1) Created project.
2) Added vb project files (I expect these files to become the master copy of my project) to vss project.
3) Set working folder for vss project.
4) Got latest version of project files to working folder.
In VB 6.0
5) Opened the working copy of project.
6) Checked out a file (Now I can see in VSS that the file is checked out from the working copy folder).

After I have done changes to out checked file and check the file back in, the changes are saved to working copy of the file but not to the master copy of the file.
What am I doing wrong?

Matti
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
I can confirm that I also have this problem. Does anyone have the answer?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
I think I got it now. The master copies of the files are stored in vss database when files are added to vss project.
However you can't really find the actual files (.vbp, .frm, ...) in vss database. The data of the files is stored in dababase in some other format and one needs to use vss explorer to get the latest version of the master copy of the data in its original format (.vbp, .frm, ...).
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
I think I was talking about the more general problem of files being checked into vss and vss not updating the master files, regardless of whether VB was used or not.

I found a solution, and I'm not sure if this is documented anywhere (I'm sure it is). You have to set up what is called "shadow folders" that point to the directory you want vss to update when files are checked in.

You set up shadow folders via the vss admin program.

Once you do this, you need to copy the csrcsafe.ini file to each client's common/vss directory on their local machines.

Hope this helps.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

srmonson
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Copy current databse to new server.. HOW?
Replies
0
Views
945
srmonson
srmonson
lincoln311219
  • Locked
  • Question Question
how to work with working folder and dev envronment
Replies
0
Views
1K
lincoln311219
lincoln311219
deepak2010
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Adding new web site project to Visual SourceSafe 2005
Replies
0
Views
1K
deepak2010
deepak2010
mauroverardi
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Team Foundation Server 2010 Advanced Configuration: Failed to load Msx
Replies
1
Views
1K
mauroverardi
mauroverardi
qberta01
  • Locked
  • Question Question
Copy Files to Local Machine
Replies
2
Views
438
qberta01
qberta01

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top