How to cancel a lock done by somebody else ?

[Gilbert Tordeur]

Hello.

A colleague of me has extracted (and locked) some files in VSS (via VS
2005). He is away for a month and i need to ecces them.

How can I unlock these files ?

Thank you,
Gilbert

[Mark Tolonen]

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Log in as "admin" and undo checkout on the files.

-Mark

[Gilbert Tordeur]

Thanks Mark but how ? I explain :

I run VSS admin (ssadmin.exe), version 8.
It automatically opens my vss base and displays the user list. Admin is
selected and connected.
Now what menu ? Tools ? The first three submenus (about rights) are
disabled. Why ?
Furthermore I see on the right part of the status bar the following text :
"Project rights : desactivated" (translated from French).

Any idea ?

Regards,
Gilbert

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[Jeff Clausius]

Gilbert:

I answered this in the "How to unlock files locked by somebody else ?"
in microsoft.public.visual.sourcesafe.

You need to log in using the VSS Explorer as the Admin User, navigate to
the files in question, highlight them and invoke the "Undo Checkout"
command.

Jeff Clausius
SourceGear

Gilbert Tordeur wrote:
> Thanks Mark but how ? I explain :
>
> I run VSS admin (ssadmin.exe), version 8.
> It automatically opens my vss base and displays the user list. Admin is
> selected and connected.
> Now what menu ? Tools ? The first three submenus (about rights) are
> disabled. Why ?
> Furthermore I see on the right part of the status bar the following text :
> "Project rights : desactivated" (translated from French).
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Regards,
> Gilbert
>

> "Mark Tolonen" <M8R-y...@mailinator.com> a �crit dans le message de news: