Removing the checkout from the deleted snapshot view

[james...@yahoo.com]

Removing the checkout from the deleted snapshot view

Here we could not delete the checkout version of the file because the
View was already deleted (not in a proper way) while the file was
still checked out. On top of that view tag and view registry object
had been deleted.

In this kind of situation:
1 Log into he location/server where the vob is stored.

2 Do the describe on the vob
Serverlocation\Vobs> cleartool describe -long vob:\VOBNAME
NOTE: It should show the list of views associated with the VOB. It
should also display the uuid of that particular view
Just to check if there is view tag and/or view registry: do following
Serverlocation\Vobs>cleartool lsview -l -uuid UUID_NUMBER
Serverlocation\Vobs>cleartool unregister -view -uuid UUID_NUMBER

3 Get the uuid of the view from which the files has been checked out.

4. Remove View- related records from all VOBS
Serverlocation\Vobs>cleartool rmview -all -uuid UUID_NUMBER

5 Check if the reference to the view is still present in the VOB
Serverlocation\Vobs>cleartool describe -long vob:\VOBNAME

NOTE: If you do the version tree of the file again, then the checkout
branch from the deleted view should be gone.