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Visual SourceSafe Analyze - What happened?

Users were complaining of a couple minor erros in one of our Sourcesafe databases, so I ran the Analyze -c -f on the database. I forgot to use the -v4 command to show what it found, so the only thing that it displayed when it was finished was:

Database analysis in progress @ 5/04/09; 9:12p.
Analysis complete @ 5/05/09; 2:43a
Some errors or inconsistencies were found and fixed.

In the "backup" folder, it put almost 102,000 files! They are mostly non-descriptive, small files. Some are labled "A Files" some are labled "B Files" and some are just labelled "Files". Are these 102,000 files "bad" or something? How do I find out any additional information on what the analyze "fix" did?

Thanks

By the way, our users are running Source Safe 6.0 and the Server is "hosting" with the 2005 version.

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abel

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Thanks for the advice abel. One other quick question, in the past, when I have ran the analyze tool, there were usually only a few files (maybe 3 or four?) that were put into the "backup" folder. After the analyze last night, there are close to 200,000 files! One difference is that I used the -c switch, when in the past, I only used the -f switch. Could that be what caused all these files to appear in the backup folder? And, are these files related to anything or are they just dead files? What are they?

abel

> One difference is that I used the -c switch

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ysxsfw4x(VS.80).aspx:

Cleans up and compresses unused space in the database. Compression removes blank space and does not compress the log files. Because compression generates a large number of files in the Backup directory, it should be used only when there is plenty of disk space available. Note that this option can be slow.

in other words, the amount of files is "expected". What they are? I'm not sure, I'll have to try it myself then, but my advice: just ignore them.

abel

tx for the points :)