Article ID: 197050
Article Last Modified on 3/10/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q197050
SYMPTOMS
In Visual SourceSafe (VSS), when doing a GET at the command line using the -r (recursive) and -vl (label) switches, you receive the following error and not all files are retrieved:
"version not found"
RESOLUTION
If all clients accessing the database are Visual SourceSafe version 6.0 or
later, run DDUPD against the data directory to convert the database to the
new format. If some clients are earlier versions of VSS, use the following
workaround.
To work around this problem, select
Options from the
Tools menu. In the
General tab, select the "Act on Projects Recursively" option (note that after changing this setting you must exit the VSS explorer for it to work on the command line). On the command line, use wildcards instead of the -r switch.
For example, if the command that is failing is:
ss get $/myproj -r -vlbeta1
then use:
ss get $/myproj/*.* -vlbeta1
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.
For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why
194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed
REFERENCES
For additional information, please see the following article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
153925 FAQ: How Can I Find Out if My VSS Database Has Been Upgraded?
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