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PRB: Error "The File 'filename.xxx' Is No Longer Checked Out to You"

Article ID: 196377

Article Last Modified on 5/2/2001

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SYMPTOMS

When a Visual InterDev Web project is under source control the following error occurs:
The file 'filename.xxx' is no longer checked out to you.

CAUSE

There are two possible scenarios where this error can occur:
  • The file that you are trying to check in to Visual SourceSafe has already been checked in by the same valid user on a different computer.
  • If the anonymous account(IUSR_machinename) has authoring or administrative permissions to the Web, all files will be checked out as this user. This allows different users to check out the same file as the same user. The anonymous account should never have authoring or administrative permissions to a Web.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Open a source control enabled Visual InterDev project on computer 1.
  2. Open a source control enabled Visual InterDev project on computer 2.
  3. In Visual SourceSafe, check out a file on computer 1.
  4. In Visual SourceSafe, check out a file on computer 2.
  5. In Visual SourceSafe, check in the file on computer 1.
  6. In Visual SourceSafe, check in the file on computer 2.
NOTE: You must be logged in as the same user on both computers or as two different users when anonymous access is allowed to the project.

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