Visual SourceSafe (VSS) command line issue with corrupt file/folder

[ianoble]

Hi all,

I am running a simple command line Get for a networked VSS database. The command executes properly until it reaches a directory that is corrupted. Because the database is not local, I don't have access to run the analyze utility to try and fix the issue. Plus, I've been told it's been run before and has not resolved anything.

To my question...how can I duplicate the functionality of the UI that skips corrupted files/folder, in my command line statement?

Here is, basically, the command I am using:

\\[DEV SERVER]\C$\PROGRA~1\MICROS~1\VSS\Win32\SS.exe Get $/Asp.Net/[FOLDER]/[PROJECT] -R -Q -I- -GWS -GLc:\inetpub\wwwroot\[PROJECT]
 

I've added the switches to try and ignore errors, but nothing seems to allow the get command to proceed past a corrupt file/folder.

Thanks for any help you can give!!

- Ian

[ianoble]

Because there doesn't seem to be an easy solution to this, I've updated to the code to allow the user to get the latest version of each file or a list of files rather than the whole project. It appears that VSS doesn't handle corrupted files very well.