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"
Related
I am trying to set up TFS for vscode. I am getting the error, unable to validate the collection assuming 'default collection', when signing in. Any recommendations oh how to resolve this issue.
Firstly make sure you have correctly set the TFVC support.
Below is a short list of steps to get up-and-running with TFVC support:
Install the Team Services extension for Visual Studio Code.
Team Foundation Server requires your domain credentials.
Ensure you have a TF command line client installed (either TF.exe or
the TEE CLC).
Set the tfvc.location VS Code setting to the full path of your TF
command line client.
Open a folder containing a Local TFVC Workspace and sign in when
prompted.
Set the SCM Provider to TFVC.
For more detail tutorial you could also take a look at my reply in this question How can I connect to on-premises TFS using visual studio code?
Back on the error message, it may related to the workspace. Check if you have correctly mapped the workspace. Just try to remap the existing workspace or create a new workspace and map sources to a new local folder, then check that again.
Also just try to specify the collection and team project name in the user settings like this:
{
"tfvc.location": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\IDE\\tf.exe",
"team.remoteUrl": "http://server:8080/tfs/collection",
"team.teamProject": "TeamProjectName",
"tfvc.restrictWorkspace": true,
"window.zoomLevel": 2
}
This relates to question,
TFS checkin error - could not find file
"When checking in my project I get the error:
Could not find file 'C\blah blah blah'.
I have a feeling this might be a file from an old project I deleted.
I have tried deleting my TFS connection and workspaces.
The Solution was:
This will happen when TFS has some changes staged that no longer exist on the file system. For instance, if you add some files in Visual Studio (which adds them to the changes list), delete them directly from the file system, then attempt to check in the changes, it will complain that it could not find the file(s).
To remove these changes from the list, you can open Source Control Explorer (View > Other Windows > Source Control Explorer) and either Delete the nonexistent files or right-click on the offending files and Undo Pending Changes.
You can also undo these specific changes from the Pending Changes panel in Team Explorer.
Follow up Question:
So my question is,
how do I conduct the equivalent of this in the TFS Server? It continuously happens multiple times on our team.
This works on a person's desktop, but whats the equivalent commandline in the TFS server, and can I incorporate this in my build steps?
You delete files from TFS in the wrong way. the TFS server doesn't know your local file system, if you deleted a file from your local folder the file still exists on TFS.
This is the reason for the issues and errors. if a developer wants to delete a file and he deleted the file from the local folder and then got the error Could not find file and to solve it he does "Undo pending changes" so the file still exists on TFS and when another developer see the file in his system he also deleted it locally and he also will get the error in the check-in.
So, if a developer wants to delete a file from TFS he needs to right-click on the file and "Delete" and "check-in". if he already deleted it locally he can do the "delete nonexistent files" and "check-in". now each developer when he does "Get latest" not will get the file.
You can also delete files with a tf.exe command line in the delete command:
tf delete [/lock:(none|checkin|checkout)] [/recursive] [/login:username,[password]] itemspec
During the build, you can add a command line/Power Shell task and run the tf.exe.
You can undo another person's changes from the commandline using:
tf vc undo /workspace:workspacename;owner $/project/path/to/file
You can get this information by calling:
tf vc status $/project/path/to/file /user:*
This allows you to remove pending changes from the server, though it won't cause the files to be reverted on the workstation of the developer in question.
Both commands offer a /recursive option to undo multiple files under a specific path at once.
If you're using Visual Studio 2015 or earlier, then you can use the TFS Power Tools to add a "Find by status" option to the Visual Studio Source Control Explorer. This has unfortunately not made it into Visual Studio 2017 and there are no TFS Power Tools for Visual Studio 2017.
The TFS Sidekicks offer a Status Sidekick screen, which allows you to query all files currently checked out for edit in server workspaces and allow you to undo them centrally.
Preventing the issue altogether
To prevent the issue altogether you have a few options. You can switch to Local workspaces, instead of server workspaces. Those auto-detect local changes and don't register changes on the TFS server itself. Read more about local workspaces.
You can perform the deletes from the tf vc command line instead of using other tools to delete files and folders, for example:
tf vc delete $/project/path/to/file
The delete command also has a /recursive option. Using this command will not only update your local folder, but will also update the server workspace.
I was trying to map workspace, due to some issue I have canceled the process and deleted the entry from Manage Workspace.
But when I retried the process, I am getting below error
"The workspace [workspaceName];[Owner] already exists on computer [ComputerName]"
I have tried below things to resolve it
1) using VS Command prompt
First display list of workspaces for named computer giving workspace name and owner:
>tf workspaces /computer:oldComputerName /collection:”http://devsrvr:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection”
To delete:
>tf workspace /delete WorkSpaceName;OwnerName /collection:”http://devsrvr:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection”
But listing command is not showing any workspace. so this option dosen't help me.
I got the help reference form here
2) Tried Repair Local Visual Studio TFS Workspace Mapping by clearing cache data from %localappdata%\Microsoft\Team Foundation\5.0\Cache. This option also didn't work for me. I am still getting same error. Reference
3) Checked Control Panel >> User Account >> Mange Password for deleted the enetries (It is used to work with older VS version). But this also didn't work.
Please let me know if any one know the resolution.
You may try the items below:
Close VS.
Removes the specified workspace entry with the command line: tf workspaces /remove:(*|workspace1[,workspace2,...]) /collection:(*|TeamProjectCollectionUrl)
Delete the workspace with command tf workspace /delete [/collection:TeamProjectCollectionUrl] workspacename[;workspaceowner] [/login:username,[password]]
Create a workspace with new name and then retry deleting the old workspace.
When we do team builds using tfs 2013 we occasionally get the following error:
Exception Message: Unable to create the workspace '41_9_UKBOLTFS6' 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:\xxx\xxx\xxx is already mapped in workspace 41_9_UKBOLTFS6. (type MappingConflictException)
If we kick off a new build it may succeed, if not we try again and eventually it works without any changes.
I have seen very similar questions posted on stackoverflow about this but non where the workspaces it is complaining about are the same '41_9_UKBOLTFS6'.
We migrated most of our builds from TFS2010 but not all and we never had this issue before.
Does anyone know what is going on?
This occurs (as the error suggests) when you have a workspace clash on the build server. Workspaces are saved as configuration values in the TFS database so clashes are possibly caused by:
you have created a new build definition with the same name as a previous build definition.
some part of your workspace name (or an artifact within your project) is over 260 chars
build definition is not using $(sourcedir) macro in System Settings tab
More details are explained in this article
Possible work-around:
Rename your build definition to something unique.
Looks like you have multiple team builds mapped to the same local directory. Make sure that the Working Directory in all your agents are unique and there is no absolute path in workspace settings of your build definitions
I've run to this issues and blogged about my solution without renaming the build definition. Check it out here: https://christiaanmolendijk.nl/2016/05/23/before-stressing-out-tfs-cache-folder-on-build-server/
Summary of the link:
Go to cache folder: {userprofile}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\{version}\Cache
Edit file VersionControl.config in Volatile folder
Then go back to the cache folder at {userprofile}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\{version}\Cache and delete the folders with a GUID as name.
I have to migrate the shelveset created in one branch say "development" to another say "release".
so that I can directly merge the shelveset then to release which was created for development branch.
the command I have used is:
tfpt unshelve "shelveset name" /migrate /source:"$...development" /target:"$...Release"
it is showing this error:
unable to determine the workspace
Your location from where you launch the command must be from within your workspace.
E.g. c:\workspaces\project\development if that's where your source is located.
I guess you question is: How can I get the job done without this error occurring?.
In that case, make sure both branches are mapped to your local system and a latest version of your source code in you did a get-latest-version.
That should prevent the error from happening, because the paths then both contain information about the workspace used for the mapping.
I ran into the same issue today.
After checking the items below I got it working:
Have only one Powertools installed.
Run the command from a Developer Command Prompt
Run the command from the folder that is mapped to your target workspace.
I had to uninstall v. 2010 so only v. 2012 remained. The version numbers doesn't seem to reference your TFS version.
To check if you are at the correct folder, you can run tf workspace.
In the window that pops up find the workspace that you want to target and check in column Local Folder. Make sure you are in that folder.
I spent good amount of time to get this done and I had few issues to overcome and one of these in fact was
unable to determine the workspace
This particular issue was solved by running the command from source branch root folder. This is contrary to some answers here and on SO in general where they say to use "target" branch - no, use "source":
cd [your !!source!! branch root]
tfpt unshelve /migrate /source:"$/MyCollection/Development/Maint1.1" /target:"$/MyCollection/Development/Maint1.2" "myShelveset;UserName"
Second issue appeared after this. Seem that it couldn't connect to TFS server. what I realized, I have multiple VS installed and connected to different TFS servers. I was using VS12 and I had workspace and server connection. But I didn't realize that same connection needs to be replicated in VS13 for TFPT2013 to work. It connects to same server and workspace.
I also tried doing it using TFPT2015 but I installed it and it didn't install TFPT.exe hence it was useless. So I tried from TFPT2013 to TFS2015 and it worked for this particular command. I wonder, why not, if VS12/13 works fine against TFS2015?
To summarize
Use CMD or DevCMD - doesn't matter
run from source branch root folder
verify Team Explorer Server connection
TF Power Tools 2013 work against TFS v15, at least migrate option works
My first answer explains how to have this done properly using TFPT. In this answer, I want to explain how to do it without TFPT.
Every developer should have multiple workspaces. Because we work on multiple issues simultaneously and we don't want to mix it up. so, you work on one issue in WS1 and another issue in WS2. So, if you unshelve your shelveset in a different workspace, this will do that as well. Because your shelveset can't point to 2 different locations in the same workspace. But in different workspace it will unshelve to a location mapped in that workspace.
I ran into the same problem as Boris Callens. I had installed the TF Power Tools for VS2012 and VS2013. When runing the tfpt.exe command in command promt I always had the error message "unable to determine the workspace". This is because I was using the VS 2012 power tools with TFS 2013. So I had to change the Path to the Power Tools in the System Environment Variable "TFSPowerToolDir" to point to the Power Tools for VS2013.
You can find the version number running: tfpt.exe /?
TF Power Tools version