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It's been asked a lot, and for 2 days, I've tried to resolve, with no success. I am running TFS 2012 Express, on Win7. I have installed VS Express edition on that machine. I can check in fine. I am trying to set up a Continuous Integration build.
But, when I force a build on the build server, I get the following error:
Unable to create the workspace '2_1_Server' due to a mapping conflict.
You may need to manually delete an old workspace. You can get a list
of workspaces on a computer with the command 'tf workspaces
/computer:%COMPUTERNAME%'.
Details: The path C:\Builds\Finance is already mapped in workspace
1_1_Server. (type MappingConflictException)
(Not sure where it gets "C:\Builds\Finance" from....)
I then try what it says on my dev machine, and it asks me for my login credentials on the build server. I enter them, and it tells me:
That seems fine, no?
On the server, I check my Build Agent working folder:
d:\Builds\$(BuildAgentId)\$(BuildDefinitionPath)
I am not sure where the conflict is.
Interesting, if I load a different team project on the same server, it builds. I just created a build definition for this project, and it seemed to build successfully. I think it has something to do with the Build Definitions, as these projects were moved from another TFS server.....
Can anyone assist?
Install the free tool Team Foundation Sidekicks, and use it to delete any workspaces for your build server via Tools > Workspace Sidekick (i.e. with your build server's name in the workspace search result's Computer column). (Don't worry; TFS builds will recreate them):
Then go and delete everything under d:\builds on the build server.
Then check the workspace mapping by editing each build def under its Source Settings tab, and ensure they are using $(SourceDir) as part of the path for every mapping defined.
If the builds have the paths hardcoded instead of using the $(SourceDir) token as the root, it might explain the behavior you are seeing.
I need help resolving the following issue:
I am attempting to unshelve code from the source branch onto a target branch.
I am using the following:
VS2012 RC
TFS 2012
VS2012 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt
When I use the command prompt to perform the unshelve operation, the following occurs:
Shelveset details dialog gets displayed with list of change files.
Click Unshelve button.
Observe command prompt output: "An item with the same key has already been added."
I have downloaded ServicePack1 for power tools.
However, I have failed to resolve this issue.
I had the same issue and fixed it when I re-shelved the changeset from the source branch but chose not to preserve pending changes locally. After this the migration of the new shelveset ran smoothly.
(I also made sure I'd followed the below steps collected from other answers on this site)
Use a workspace that encompasses both source and target branches
Run the command from the folder mapped to the source branch
Check for quotes around any paths containing spaces
Deleting the cache in C:\Users[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\4.0\Cache and restarting Visual Studio
I had the same error when using Visual Studio 2013 and the following command:
> tfpt unshelve /migrate /source:"$/Root/Solution" /target:"$/Root/Branches/Solution" "The name of my shelveset"
> An item with the same key has already been added
Research
Here's what I tried to fix the issue:
Clearing the Cache as per Andrey's answer
Try running the command from the Source -> Branch and Branch -> Source
My workspace already encompassed both source and target branches
Solution
Open up your equivalent of the VS2013 x86 Native Tools Command Prompt.
Check you have Team Foundation Power Tools installed:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\tfpt
Ensure you have 0 Pending and Excluded changes.
I had some Excluded changes which were detected but not added and this is what caught me out. Excluded changes should look like this:
Note: No "Detected: XX (adds)" - should not be visible
When you run tf status, you should see something like the following.
Either 1 change(s) for the .tfignore file or 0 change(s). Anything else will upset the merge.
C:\tfs\Root\Solution>tf status
File name Change Local path
$/Root .tfignore edit C:\tfs\Root\Solution.tfignore
1 change(s)
Ensure you are running the tfpt command from the source Solution directory
You should be now be able to successfully merge a shelveset from one branch to another.
Note on .tfsignore:
If you have a lot of pending changes that you don't want to undo for whatever reason, then
a modification to the .tfignore file is ok.
If this is the only file that you have left with changes, it won't brake the merge.
.tfignore reference => stackoverflow - How to ignore files/directories in tfs?
Try to undo all changes on Source and Target branch and then try again...
Try to delete all the files in the following folder and restart VS2012 (Source):
C:\Users[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\4.0\Cache
I'm having trouble getting TFPT.exe to work at all, even after trying to refresh the cached workspace settings per the usual advice on the internet. See below for a log representative of what I've tried and am seeing. Can anyone explain why "tf get" is able to detemine the workspace, but "tfpt annotate" fails?
C:\tfsproj> set tfptcmd="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools\TFPT.exe"
C:\tfsproj> set tfcmd="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\TF.exe"
C:\tfsproj> %tfcmd% workspaces /s:http://tfs:8080/tfs/Apps
Collection: tfs\Apps
Workspace Owner Computer Comment
--------- -------------- -------- ---------------------------------------------
DAVID David_Zarlengo DAVID
C:\tfsproj> %tfcmd% get /preview
C:\tfsproj\src\:
Replacing Readme.txt
C:\tfsproj> %tfptcmd% annotate src\Readme.txt
Unable to determine the workspace
When I edit the workspace in Visual Studio 2010, the "Working folders" grid contains 3 rows, one of which is "Active, $/Foo, C:\tfsproj", therefore, I assume the folder is mapped correctly.
cross-posted on Team Foundation Server – Power Tools & Add-ons
This suggestion from a similar discussion on MSDN forums helped me:
You need to make sure that you are running the commands from a mapped
folder, you can run tf workfold to see if the current folder is mapped
or not (i.e in your case run the commands from C:\Temp)
For those in vs2017: try firing up vs2015 (not 2017), make sure to connect to TFS server in vs2015, and then tfpt worked just fine.
But note: it sounds like the tf powertools commands are being integrated into the new tfs tooling, so tfpt is not really a thing in 2017. See Daniel Mann's answer here for more info and helpful links: tfpt.exe on Visual Studio 2017
I had this same error and the problem was that when I ran tfpt from the command line it was resolving to the 2008 version of the power tools instead of the 2010 version.
Run tfpt with no arguments and in the help it dumps out, it tells you which version it is.
After taking a fresh look at this, it turns out that 'C:\tfsproj' is a directory symbolic link to 'C:\some\nested\path'. Running the TFPT command from the nested path works as expected.
Interestingly, the TFS workspace was mapped to the nested path, so it is surprising that TF commands (e.g. tf get /preview) were able work correctly from the alias path.
I suspect that TFPT does not follow NTFS directory symbolic links correctly when determining the workspace.
As long as you are inside the working directory, tfpt annotate should work. If you are getting the message "Unable to determine the workspace" then it is a caching issue.
If, as you said, you ran tf workspaces /s:serverURL and it still doesn't resolve I would try creating a new workspace and testing it out there. If that works then something wrong with the workspace obviously and I would just delete it and use the new one. If both fail then of course there is a bigger problem but that is how I would approach it.
In my case, here is how I arrived to this problem (error message "Unable to determine the workspace"), and how I solved it.
Arrival:
I had some code. The development moved from the branch in which I worked (lets call it Branch1) to Branch2. I had to continue under Branch2. I shelved the changes, re-mapped my development folder to Branch2, opened Developer Command Prompt for VS2012 and ran the following command
tfpt unshelve /migrate /source:"$/path/Branch1" /target:"$/path/Branch2" "Shelveset Name"
Here I've got the "Unable..." message
Solution:
In my case, the problem was that when I opened command prompt, its working directory was c:\program files\...\...Visual Studio 11.... It worked (migrating shelveset) when I changed working directory to the directory of the Branch itself: c:\MyBranchFolder
I type this command: tf workspaces into a command line and it tells me there are no workspaces on the machine. I then try the same command on the server, nothing. So I go into Visual Studio 2010 and create a new workspace and try to map the TFS path to my local path. I then get an error that the mapping already exists in another workspace. But I cannot find that workspace on my local or on the tfs server. Any ideas?
You can run tf workspaces /remove:* to clear out your local cache of workspaces. See this link for more details.
I know this is an old question, but I just came across this issue on a Linux machine running TEE (Team Explorer Everywhere). Running "tf workspaces -remove:*" didn't work, because it said there were no workspaces in the cache.
The user was trying to create a new workspace, which worked, but when he tried to map folders, it told him it didn't exist.
When he ran "tf workspaces" on the machine and when I looked in TFS Sidekicks on the server itself, it didn't show any workspaces for him on the Linux box.
If he tried to create the workspace again, it told him that it already existed, but every time he tried to map, he was told it didn't.
We could see the workspace from the tf command line if I did "tf workspaces /owner:", and it required me to run "tf workspace /delete ;" from the command line to get rid of it.
Once we did that, he was able to create it again and everything worked properly.
No idea why that happened, but figured I'd post my answer here just in case someone else comes across a similar issue in the future.
When creating a new build in Team Foundation Server, I get the following error when attempting to run the new build:
The path
C:\Build\ProductReleases\FullBuildv5.4.2x\Sources
is already mapped to workspace
BuildServer_23.
I am unable to see a workspace by that name in the workspaces dialog.
Use the command line utility TF - Team Foundation Version Control Tool (tf).
You can get a list of all workspaces by bringing up a Visual Studio Command Prompt then changing to your workspace folder and issuing the following commands:
C:\YourWorkspaceFolder>tf workspaces /owner:*
You should see your problem workspace in the list as well as it's owner.
You can delete the workspace with the following command:
C:\YourWorkspaceFolder>tf workspace /delete /server:BUILDSERVER WORKSPACENAME;OWNERNAME
Just delete the contents of the following folder(s):
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\3.0\Cache
Where UserName is actual or current user, and 3.0 is the version number.
I had a similar issue and to remove the workspace that was causing me a problem, I logged into another machine with TFS client installed and performed the following:
On the File menu, point to Source Control, Advanced, and then click
Workspaces....
In the Manage Workspaces dialog box, tick the Show remote packages checkbox.
Under the Name column, select the workspace that you want to remove, and then click Remove.
In
the Confirmation dialog box, click OK.
I received this error, which was caused by having two build definitions that pointed to the same source. The issue was that I used a static build directory in the Build Agent.
This forum post describes my issue and resolution exactly:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsbuild/thread/60a4138a-9b28-4c46-bdf4-f9775ce43c3e/
We had the same problem but deleting the workspace's from the TFS server did not work.
(I should mention that I grabbed my colleagues VM that was already set up with his credentials.)
For me this worked:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2006/09/12/path-is-already-mapped-in-workspace.aspx
I just went into the : ...\Local Settings\Application Data\ made a search for VersionControl.config, opened up the folder that contained this file and deleted all of it's contents.
Previous to that I tried manually editing the file but it continued with the same error message.
I hope this helps.
For some reason I was having trouble deleting the workspace from the command-line utility. Luckily I found Team Foundation Sidekicks 2010 (from this post) which is free and provides a GUI for viewing and deleting TFS workspaces, and many more useful TFS features.
I had a similar problem with Visual Studio 2010 complaining about an already-mapped-workspace, but instead of deleting the entire workspace, I used the following from the Visual Studio Command Prompt: "tf workspace PROBLEM_WORKSPACE_NAME". This brought up an "Edit Workspace" dialog. From there I was able to remove the path in question from the "Working Folders" list, which got rid of the error.
the rest was fairly easy.
Simply go to this folder:
C:\Users{UserName}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\4\Cache
and delete all that's in the folder.
I was getting an exception telling me that the file was already mapped in another workspace:
"The path {File Path} is already mapped in workspace {Workspace Name}."
This workspace was deleted beofre.
With the help of friend of mine I found out that TFS save workspace info under the user local settings dir. We found a file named:
VersionControl.config under {User Documents and Settings dir}\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation\1.0\Cache.
This file contains all the local mapping of TFS. Probably when you use the Map method and don't use:
public void DeleteMapping(WorkingFolder mapping); before deleting the workspace the mapping information is not removed from this file which is used by TFS to check if you've alreay mapped a specific path.
To resolve this problem delete all the keys from the config file. Don't delete the file because you'll get it again from the server cache.
Here is what I did (well what I do):
Using TFS Sidekicks clear out the user and server filters so they are blank. This will let you get all workspaces.
Check the build error for the workspace name. In the OPs case it is BuildServer_23. It is different in my environment but basically just match up the error name with the one in the tfs sidekick list.
Click the red x to delete the workspace.
Viola!
If applicable, you can also clone the build definition and change its name. This workded for me.
I tried all the following solutions such as :
Use sidekicks to delete WS.
Use tf commands to delete remote server workspaces.
Delete the TFS cache folder.
The following worked for me:
tf workspaces /remove:*
If you don't have permissions on the server to delete other people's workspaces, you can just change the name of the build definition. TFS will create a new workspace and map it to "C:\Build\ProductReleases\new build name here\Sources".
While trying to 'Get latest version' of a project which I had previously mapped to a local directory and then deleted, I saw this same error message.
First I tried the SideKick tool and then the Visual Studio 2010 command prompt, both of which told me I had no workspaces mapped.
Next I searched for 'VersionControl.config' within c:/users/myuser/appdata, and deleted the 4 references it found.
I re-opened Visual Studio and I was able to re-map the project, no more error!
Simplest way to do this is to go to your AppData and delete the TFS cache (depending on the version 3.0 or 4.0)
C:\Users{UserName}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\3.0\Cache
or
C:\Users{UserName}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\4.0\Cache
TDN's solution worked for me when I was having the same issue. The Build server created workspaces under my account. Checking this box allowed me to see and delete them.
I got same issue in Visual Studio 2017 and TFS 2017. DefaultCollection must be mapped first to you local path. Somehow this step was skipped and I got only MyFirstProject mapped.
All you need to do is:
- 1. Go to your TFS web page and remove the project from the server.
- 2. Remove the project from your local "Worksapces"
- 3. Go to "Manage Connections" which will refresh your Home page in TeamExplorer.
- 4. You will get Configuration page which will allow you to setup root path to your DefaultCollection.
- 5. You should get message that it been done successfully. Now you can create your project.
It's important to map root of your collection to your workspace first and then map a new project.
My issue was related to using multiple accounts. This is how I was able to switch accounts.
Open Team Explorer
From the big drop down menu near the top of the pane...
Navigate to:
Projects and my Teams>Manage Connections
Navigate to:
Manage Connections>Connect to Team Project
Use the "Switch User" link to switch accounts.
Now the workspace names will match the chosen account.
I couldn't get any other solution to work.
I had a new account created and the old account no longer had permissions (both on same machine).
I tried:
1) Deleting the workspace (couldn't see in VS with or without remote workspaces checked)
2) Deleting from the command line
3) New owner command
4) Deleting the cache
So I simply opened VS as admin and mapped to a different folder.
Deleting the workspace and cache was not sufficient for me.
I had to also restart the "Visual Studio Team Foundation Build Service Host" service.
Go to the Source Control Explorer
In the toolbar there is a dropdown list of Workspaces.
Click the dropdown and go to workspaces.
Remove the unwanted workspace.
Map to your local.
I changed
Build Definition -> Workspace -> Build Agent Folder
from
c:\some\path
to
$(SourceDir)
and it fixed the issue.
I had this issue with this with Azure DevOps automated builds in an on-prem TFS build agent. Removing the workspace using TFS Sidekicks did not work. And tf.exe could not even find the workspace to delete it.
This solution should work for TFS 2017, TFS 2018, Azure DevOps, and possibly other versions:
Take note of the workspace GUID in the error message.
On the machine where the build is taking place, navigate to: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\ (where %USERPROFILE% belongs to the user that triggered the build).
Search for and remove all instances of the workspace GUID under that directory. There will likely be a folder in a 'cache' directory, as well as entries in 'LocationServerMap.xml' and 'LocalItemExclusions.config'. Remove them all.
That worked in my circumstance.
Simply delete the workspace:
workspace /delete "the-workspace-name"