Pending Checkins shows deleted files

ccoleman88 · Post by **ccoleman88** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:20 pm

Hello,
for a while now my pending checkins has shown a file which was recently deleted, and i cant seem to find a way to get this to stop displaying. It simply shows the path to where the image previously was and says file not available.

ian_sg · Post by **ian_sg** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:07 pm

What version of Vault are we dealing with? Which client?

ccoleman88 · Post by **ccoleman88** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:19 pm

Vault Client is 4.1.0

I am noticing the issue from within visual studio 'pending checkins'

ian_sg · Post by **ian_sg** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:28 pm

If the window's title is exactly "Pending Checkins" then this is the Classic Client. Can you confirm that for me? (You could also look at Visual Studio's source control options for the active source control plug in.)

ccoleman88 · Post by **ccoleman88** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:33 pm

it is the classic.

i do appreciate the help by the way!

Terence · Post by **Terence** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:40 pm

Hello, ccoleman88.

I'm assuming this is a web project? If so, how was the file deleted?

By that I mean, was it deleted from disk and from the repository by the same user?

ccoleman88 · Post by **ccoleman88** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:48 pm

To be honest with you i dont know, i just recently inherited this project and basically i just need a means to remove the source control reference to this file so that it no longer shows as pending.

heres what i do know.

VS2005 shows the file under pending checkins and lists it as 'file not available'

undo checkout seemingly does nothing.

the file does not exist in our sourcevault client.

i really just want to remove it from source control.

Terence · Post by **Terence** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:54 pm

Can you please try:

Using the Vault GUI client.

1. Go to where it would exist in the Vault repository and right-click the parent folder.

2. View the properties of the parent folder from the right-click menu.

3. Go to "deleted items" and undelete the troubled file.

Go back to Visual Studio.

1. Get latest version of that file (using the Solution Explorer).

2. Once it has been retrieved, delete it again from within Visual Studio.

This should re-delete it from the Vault repository as well.

ccoleman88 · Post by **ccoleman88** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 2:59 pm

'There are no deleted items in this folder'

that sounded like it was on the right track, i am unsure how the file was deleted.

Terence · Post by **Terence** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:05 pm

Hmmm... it hasn't been deleted from Vault and it's not there now. This would lead me to believe that it was never controlled then.

Ok... we can try this then.

From the File menu, go to Source Control->Change Source Control

Then for the project that's has the problem file, click the Unbind button.

Close the dialog.

At this point, the Pending Checkins window should have removed that file.

Then go back to File->Source Control->Change Source Control and re-bind the project.