I am using MS Access 2000, MS Visual SourceSafe 6.0d, and the toolkit
that allows to integrate the former with the latter. This is about ADP
project under VSS's control.
Here is what happened:
(1) When I was renaming a report in MS Access (let's say from "XYZ" to
"ABC"), some glitch happened (possibly a network error or something),
and something got corrupted in VSS repository. The MS Access "special
project" in the repository became practically unusable (neither by MS
Access, nor by VSS client application itself).
(2) VSS analyzer detected a bunch of problems in the repository. So I
ran VSS "Analyze & Fix" utility. Apparently it fixed something, and the
VSS project became accessible again. Everything looks fine when I'm
trying to use this project via Access, except one thing: something is
wrong with the file that I was renaming when the glitch happened.
Specifically, after building the local ADP project from the VSS
project, I observe the following:
- VSS shows this file's name as truncated and without extension -- like
"AB" instead of intended "ABC.ACR".
- VSS says that this file is checked out by me. (BTW, I'm not sure it
was explicitly checked out at the time I was renaming it in MS Access).
- In my working folder, I see this file (again, with truncated name);
FWIW, it's in read-only state. So I guess it was successfully got by
Access from VSS when I was building the ADP project.
- The corresponding report is NOT visible in Access user interface (in
the Database Window). So it looks like Access was unable to recognize
this file as a report file (perhaps because it does not have ".ACR"
extension).
- The contents of the "orphan" file appears to be perfectly normal (as
far as I can tell by looking at the code inside).
Did anyone encounter a similar problem when using Access and VSS? I
would greatly appreciate any advise on how could I restore the proper
state and name of this file or at least how to get rid of it entirely.
It's a simple report (easy to recreate from scratch), but at least I
want to get rid of the file that VSS considers being checked out. At
this point I cannot see any way to do that neither using VSS (because
the VSS project is "special" and I cannot delete or rename a file in
it), nor using Access (because it does not show the corresponding
report at all).
Please help.
Thank you very much,
Yarik.
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