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Hi,

I use Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6.0d for source control in Flare. Everything works fine except that the files named ".folder.props" (named by Flare) can't be added to source control. VSS gives an syntax error when trying. I guess the first "." is the problem.

The result is that I can't secure all my help text source in VSS.

What to do?

Can Flare name these files to something else? "_folder.props" may work.

-- HÃ¥kan

The props folder is sometimes hidden - if you've set Windows to show hidden files you will see them Have you tried removing the hidden attribute?

Don't know about VSS, but TFS handled the props file alright.

No, the files are not hidden. That's not the problem. The problem is that the file name is frefixed with a dot and that VSS doesn't accept that. As the file is named internally by Flare I can't fix it. I can only see two solutions, either Flare is changed to name the files different or I upgrade VSS to a newer version that possibly (!!!) accepts these files.

There must be others controlling the source files with VSS. How have they solved it?

-- HÃ¥kan

Flare has not been tested with Source Control 6.0 as this was released back in 1999. We have had some reports that files may not check in correctly in VSS 6.0

We used to use VSS v6 but as you've noticed it can't handle files with two periods in the name.
We've sinced moved to TFS and have had no problems since. As we have two authors working remotely and VPNing into the office, the speed improvements alone in TFS more than made up for any hassle with changing the source control system.