INFO: Will VSS 5.0 Be Able to Read a VSS 6.0 Database?
Article ID: 153285
Article Last Modified on 3/15/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0a
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q153285
SUMMARY
Q. Will Visual SourceSafe 5.0 be able to read a Visual SourceSafe 6.0
database?
A. Visual SourceSafe 5.0 and 4.0a clients can read a Visual SourceSafe 6.0
database if the Visual SourceSafe 6.0 database has not been upgraded to the
new database format. Initially, when you create a new Visual SourceSafe 6.0
database or upgrade from a previous version of the database, you are asked
if you would like to upgrade to the new database format. Click No if you
want your Visual SourceSafe 5.0 and 4.0a clients to be able to read a
Visual SourceSafe 6.0 database. If your clients receive an "Incompatible
database version" error message after upgrading to Visual SourceSafe 6.0,
the database format might have been inadvertently upgraded. There is a
command line utility named Ddupd.exe, located in the win32 directory of the
Visual SourceSafe server. This utility has an
-undo switch that converts
the database from a 6.0 format to a 4.0a or 5.0 format. The syntax is:
ddupd.exe <path to data directory> -undo
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