Obliteration Question

jsynoski · Post by **jsynoski** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:48 am

In reviewing the obliteration lists for the VSS databases that I've imported, there are a significant number of files listed that have a _VSSImport0 or _VSSImport1 appended to them and are repeated up to 20 times.

a) What are these files?
b) Can they be safely obliterated?

Jim Synoski

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:49 am

These belong to imported labels and should not be obliterated. They are files deleted after the label was applied but will be needed to reconstruct the label for a Get by Label.

More here:

http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=3607

jsynoski · Post by **jsynoski** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:48 am

If these files are needed to reconstruct labels, then why are they listed in the Obliterate dialog?

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 9:50 am

Because they are deleted and deleted items show up in the Obliterate screen. There might be a better way to handle deleted files that should not be obliterated.

I'll log a bug about this.