Checking In ... Lost My Changes

cpoirier · Post by **cpoirier** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:19 pm

Hello,

I have a project that I was working on for the past couple weeks, and when I finished the changes this morning, I checked in the project from Visual Studio 2003 (by right-clicking the project folder and selecting "Check in ..."). After checking in, the one new file that I added to the project was checked in properly, and the project file was checked in, but the existing files that I had made changes to were all reverted to their old version (as if I had done an "Undo Checkout").

We're using version 3.1.6.

Any insight into how this could have happened, how I can retrieve my lost files, or how I can prevent this from happening again would be greatly appreciated.

Chris

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:50 pm

Not sure how your changes were lost. Are there any errors reported in the Vault server log around the time of the checkin? It's sgvault.log in %windir%\temp\sgvault.

If locally modified files were overwritten, they should have been automatically backed up by Vault. Look for an _sgbak folder in your working directory. It's possible to configure this for a different location -- this would be set in the Vault Client Tools->Options->Local Files->Cache/Backup location.