BUG: SourceSafe Reports a Date/Time of 1/1/70
Article ID: 130270
Article Last Modified on 4/18/2003
APPLIES TO
This article was previously published under Q130270
SYMPTOMS
SourceSafe reports a date/time of 1/1/70 on all files within a project.
CAUSE
This is caused by a corrupt Status.dat file.
RESOLUTION
You may repair the Status.dat file by doing one of the following:
- Download the latest versions of Analyze and DDCONV. For information on
downloading these files, please see the following article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
190881 ANALYZE5.EXE Utility for Visual SourceSafe
- Delete the Status.dat file and run ANALYZE <path to data directory> -f.
NOTE: If you have SourceSafe version 4.0 (build 811 or 831), you should
obtain version 4.0a (build 1309) from Microsoft Technical Support before
repairing the Status.dat file.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed
at the beginning of this article.
Additional query words: REBUILD
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