# Visual Source Safe Get Latest no longer works?

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [November 27, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189 "2009-11-27T06:07:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author: ![mwade](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@mwade](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/mwade)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2009, 6:07am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189/1 "2009-11-27T06:07:04Z")

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I just updated FB6.20 1074 to FB6.30 1816.&nbsp; All my projects that require getting the latest version from VSS6.0 no longer work.&nbsp; It's just a standard action, but ss.exe just runs forever.&nbsp; If I&nbsp;terminate the action I&nbsp;get the following:

Executing external process: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\VSS\win32\ss.exe  
Starting Directory: C:\Tapestry\Build\TapRci  
Parameters: get $/TapRci -I-Y "-GLC:\Tapestry\Build\TapRci" -Y"\*\*\*\*" -GTC -GF- -GWS  
Output from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\VSS\win32\ss.exe  
Username: Michael  
Password:   
-  
Files Processed successfully : 0  
Files Not Processed : 0  
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&nbsp;If I do a manual get latest from VSS&nbsp;it works fine.&nbsp; Windows XP SP3.&nbsp; Visual Source Safe 6.0c.&nbsp; I&nbsp;can't think of anything special.&nbsp; It worked just fine on 6.20.&nbsp; If you have any help or suggestions I sure would appreciate it.

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### Author: ![Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/vincent/32/938_2.png) [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2009, 9:58am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189/2 "2009-11-27T09:58:22Z")

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Hi Michael   
  
 I just took a look at our version control system and couldn’t see any changes that might cause the action to hang (they were all minor changes, mostly logging related).   
  
 Can you copy the command line and run it from the dos prompt and see what happens? I suspect VSS is showing a messagebox in the background, or prompting for something we are not expecting. The other thing you could try is to downgrade to 6.2 and copy the command line it generates and let us know.

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### Author: ![mwade](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@mwade](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/mwade)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189/3 "2009-11-28T03:21:01Z")

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If I copy/paste the command line exactly as listed, VSS comes back and says Username: \*\*\*\*   
 Which I gues makes sense. But when I put in my username into the command -Y"Michael Wade" it works fine. And my user name appears to be set correctly as Michael Wade under Tools|Options. But when I look at the Finalbuilder output, it looks like it is saying that my user name is just “Michael” not “Michael Wade”. I did note that in the Finalbuilder history that something was done here   
 September 10th, 2009 6.3.0.1712   
 Bug - Source Safe - User credentials were not being escaped   
  
 and here   
 January 21, 2009 6.2.0.1265   
 Bug - SourceSafe - Added quotes around password   
  
 Does that help at all?   
  
 Thanks,   
 Michael

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### Author: ![Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/vincent/32/938_2.png) [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2009, 10:56am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189/4 "2009-11-28T10:56:20Z")

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Are you specifying a password?

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### Author: ![mwade](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@mwade](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/mwade)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189/5 "2009-11-29T03:55:18Z")

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No password.   
  
 Why doesn’t it say   
 Username: Michael Wade   
 instead of   
 Username: Michael   
  
 Thanks,   
 Michael Wade

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### Author: ![mwade](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@mwade](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/mwade)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2009, 4:03am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189/6 "2009-11-29T04:03:39Z")

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If I remove the space between Michael and Wade to make the username MichaelWade it works fine. Does that help at all?   
  
 Thanks,   
 Michael Wade   
 aka MichaelWade

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### Author: ![mwade](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@mwade](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/mwade)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189/7 "2009-11-29T04:07:05Z")

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By that, I mean that I had to change the user name in Visual Source Safe to MichaelWade and then change the user name under FB Tools|Options Visual Source Safe to MichaelWade (no space). I may be wrong but it looks like FB doesn’t handle the space in the user name correctly. It looks like it is asking VSS for the user name “Michael” when it should be “Michael Wade”. I don’t believe that it is incorrect for a user name to have a space in it, is it?   
  
 Thanks again,   
 Michael

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### Author: ![paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2009, 12:01pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189/8 "2009-11-30T12:01:58Z")

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Hi Michael,   
  
 We should have a new build available soon which fixes the credentials problem. I’ll let you know as soon as it’s available.   
  
 Regards,   
 Paul.

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### Author: ![paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/visual-source-safe-get-latest-no-longer-works/3189/9 "2009-12-01T01:57:08Z")

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Hi Michael,   
  
 Here’s the latest build of FinalBuilder which contains the fix for the VSS credentials problem.   
  
 URL: [https://www.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/630/FB630\_1831.exe](https://www.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/630/FB630_1831.exe)   
  
 Regards,   
 Paul.
