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To install the Analyze utility, create a blank directory, copy Analyze6.exe
to the directory, and run it. Analyze6.exe is a self-extracting file that
contains Analyze.exe version 6.00.8169:
ssapi.dll
ssus.dll
mfc42.dll
msvcrt.dll
readme.txt
: Do not install these files in the VSS\Win32 directory because it
might disable the 32-bit version of Visual SourceSafe.
When you run Analyze version 6.00.8169, all messages will scroll in the
Analyze Results window. In the Analyze Results window, Analyze reports any
errors it encounters and the fixes it performs. This information is also
recorded in the Analyze.log file. Analyze contains a progress indicator in
the status bar that lets you know the status of the clean up.
If Analyze makes any changes to a file, it stores the file in a Backup
directory, which, by default, is a subdirectory of the SourceSafe Data
directory or of the directory that you run Analyze from. If the process
does not finish, you can recover the original files (as they were before
you started Analyze).
By default, Analyze locks the data files while it analyzes them. Therefore,
no one should be in Visual SourceSafe when you analyze the data files.
Switches
There are several switches in Analyze that allow you to perform functions
on your database or individual files in the Data directory. These switches
are:
Switch Description
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<none> Analyze.exe, with no parameters, reports any errors that it
encounters in the database. This is similar to the behavior
of previous versions of Analyze. For example:
ANALYZE c:\ss\data
ANALYZE f:\ss\data\a\abaaaaaa
The Analyze Results window is displayed in Windows NT or
Windows 95. This window scrolls any errors it encounters.
-f Fix. This enables Analyze to fix most of the errors it
encounters. To be successful, no users can be in Visual
SourceSafe. However, users can have files checked out. The
Visual SourceSafe administrator should wait until all users
are not running Visual SourceSafe before running Analyze with
the -f switch.
You need to have at least 16 MB of free hard drive space
available to run Analyze with the -f switch. In addition,
you should make enough hard drive space available for the
Backup directory. The size of the Backup directory is
determined by the number of corrupted files that Analyze
encounters.
Example:
ANALYZE ..\data -f
-i- This switch enables you to keep the results window from
appearing. Example:
ANALYZE f:\ss\data -i-
-v Verbose Logging. This allows Analyze to return all
information about the Analyze process to the lower pane of
the Analyze Results window. The upper pane of the Analyze
Results window is reserved for error conditions, and you
cannot turn it off. The -v switch has four option parameters
that indicate the amount of verbosity reported. By default,
it runs as -v1, which only shows errors. The -v4 option shows
all errors and informational messages. The other two options,
-v2 and -v3, fall in between. If no number is included, it
defaults to -v1.
-c Compress. The -c switch allows Analyze to compress unused
comments that might exist in log files and free-up disk space.
However, this process is considerably slower and you should
not run it frequently. For example, you would have extraneous
information if you add a file and supply a comment at the time
of the Add and then you go back to the Properties on that file
later and change the comment. Now both comments are stored in
the data file. However, you cannot get access to the first
comment. If you run Analyze with -c and it discovers two
comments for a file, it rewrites the data file and leaves out
the older comment. While this switch can reduce the size of
the database in some cases, it usually does not make a
significant difference.
-d Delete. -d enables Analyze to delete files that no longer have
valid references in Visual SourceSafe, such as files that were
branched into another project at one time, but no branched
versions of the file are now active in the database. Analyze
does an extensive comparison between projects and determines
which files can be successfully removed from the Data
directory. However, this can drastically slow down the Analyze
process so you might not want to perform this frequently.
Allow enough time for successful completion when you use the
-d switch. This switch reduces the size of the database only
if there are files that no longer have valid references in
Visual SourceSafe.
-b Different backup directory. -b allows you to specify a
different backup directory. Make sure there is enough space in
this location to hold your entire Data directory contents,
should this be necessary.
-x Do not lock. -x instructs Analyze not to lock the files as it
analyzes the database, so users can still use Visual
SourceSafe while Analyze is running. However, this switch
cannot be used with the -f, -d, and -c switches.