It really depends on the size of your database and as DonQuichote stated previously... how your network is configured and optimized. I have supported VSS for a number of years and have seen some database take as long as 12 hours. How large is your database? Are you running Analyze localy or...
Visual SourceSafe stores files using an 8 letter naming convention and in sets or filepairs. When you create a sourcesafe databse, the first item created in the database is the aaaaaaaa and aaaaaaaa.a. This is essentialy root or "$/". The next file or project you add or create...
Take a look at this paper... Its a bit long but may help.
http://search.microsoft.com/gomsuri.asp?n=1&c=rp_Results&target=http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnbda/html/tdlg_rm.asp
Good Luck!
Brett Keown
You can do a status report. I believe it is under the edit menu. Anyhow... find the status search area from one of the gui menu's (can also be called from the command line) and you will see a way to set it up to search all projects and their subfolders for all checked out items.
There is also...
Your best bet is to look in the templates folder and make a copy of it to the user directory that is having the problem. Then rename it to ss.ini.
If for some reason you don't have a templates folder, copy the ss.ini file from someone else's directory and rename it template.ini. Then go to...
I highly recommend the following paper. Its really long (84) pages, but is very complete when discussing Team Development with Visual Studio.NET and VSS.
http://search.microsoft.com/gomsuri.asp?n=1&c=rp_Results&target=http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnbda/html/tdlg_rm.asp
Good Luck...
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