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Hi,

I've recently changed to Windows Vista (from XP Prof) and upgraded to Team Foundation Server 2008 (from 2005). And now I don't seem to be able to use Flare with the source control element. Whenever I open a project in Flare that is bound to TFS and I choose to get the latest version of the files I get the following message: And when I close this message, Flare often dies. (I have seen this error message appear on other forum entries, but the circumstances don't seem the same, and their solutions don't seem to work for me).

I have checked, double checked, removed and replaced the working folder directory in TFS lots of times now, and it is present and it is correct. The projects are bound correctly within Flare and I just can't see what's left that could be going wrong.

I tried creating a completely new Flare project, and it wouldn't let me bind it to TFS either.
I can work in TFS directly, I can check files in and out no problem. I can also add new files. It's only when I try to work with linked Files from with Flare that I have the problem.

Any ideas anyone?
Thanks.

Upgrade to XP Pro maybe? Vista was a downgrade, so why use a worse OS?
Besides that, you may want to look at TFS and see if there is a working folder set for the project and if yes if it still exists. If that one does exist, make sure that the user account under which TFS runs against that folder has sufficient rights to read/write from/to it. I found as soon as Vista comes in the picture all hell breaks loose, tons of stuff just doesn't work anymore, and sometimes on a lucky day and the right moon phase one can fix that by tweaking the r/w rights to folders. I Guess Microsoft's idea of higher security is to prevent the user from doing anything.

Hehe - I agree - Vista is sending me NUTS!! Every time I try and do ANYTHING I get a little message asking me to authorise it. I wouldn't have asked it to do it if I wasn't going to authorise it!!! Unforutnately the decision to change to Vista was taken out of my hands.

Anyway, I think you may be on to something with the r/w access. I've had nothing but trouble with permissions so far, but I'd thought that as I could work in TFS directly then it wouldn't be that. Maybe not. Definitely worth looking at. I'll keep this updated with my progress in case any one else has similar issues.

Hi,

Updating from TF 2005 to TF2008 sometimes corrupts the cache. Run this commad (use run command or command prompt)


tf workspaces /format:detailed /owner:* /s:<_your AT_>

I hope this works


Cheers

Hi Eddie,

Thanks for this. I ran it past my IS guy (because I'll admit I'm not that techie) and he got quite excited, but asks:

Should this be run on my local machine, or on the TFS server, and
what does <_your AT_> stand for?

He seemed to think this has great potential though!!

Thanks in anticipation....
Juliette.

Hi,

Have him use this:

tf workspaces /format:detailed /server:teamservername WS1 ( Using this command will show you a list of workspace mappings. WS1 is the workspace owned by the current user in the currect computer)

tf workspaces /remove:* /server:teamservername (Removes cache//use this one)

You can use this website as reference

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.80).aspx

Hope it helps,

[EDIT: I added URL tags around the link so that the proper page opens.]