I tried putting -svn://localhost after the c:\program files... directory and it worked.
It is at TasK:MergeParentData right now. I guess this will take a while Thank you, Grace -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:54 PM To: Vss2Svn Users Subject: Re: unable to run vss2svn --vssdir Grace Go schrieb: > I ran it on Windows XP SP2. > I tried enclosing it with " " but still the same error > Error - ...does not appear to be a valid VSS database. > this is working here, so please check * that you really have a c:\program files\.... directory * that you have a data directory within this root directory * try again with forward slashes instead of backslashes Dirk > Thanks, > Grace > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 2:51 PM > To: Vss2Svn Users > Subject: Re: unable to run vss2svn --vssdir > > Did you run vss2svn on unix? > If not try to pack the path into "" > > Vss2svn --vssdir "c:\program files\Microsoft visual studio\common\vss" > > best regards > Dirk > > > Grace Go schrieb: > >> Vss2svn --vssdir c:\program/files\Microsoft/visual/studio\common\vss >> >> Output: >> Error -- c:\program/files\Microsoft/Visual/studio\common\vss does not >> > appear > >> to be valid VSS database at vss2svn.pl line 1261 >> >> Thanks, >> Grace >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Toby >> > Johnson > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 11:03 AM >> To: Vss2Svn Users >> Subject: Re: unable to run vss2svn --vssdir >> >> Grace Go wrote: >> >> >>> Need help I got an error with this syntax - Vssdir is c:\program >>> files\Micrsoft Visual Studio\Common\VSS >>> >>> Error after running the script saying that could not connect to database >>> >>> >>> >> Can you provide the actual command you run and the exact output? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vss2svn-users mailing list >> Project homepage: >> http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: >> >> > http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org > >> Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): >> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vss2svn-users mailing list >> Project homepage: >> http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: >> >> > http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org > >> Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): >> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user >> >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > vss2svn-users mailing list > Project homepage: > http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ > Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: > http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org > Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user > > _______________________________________________ > vss2svn-users mailing list > Project homepage: > http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ > Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: > http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org > Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user > > > > _______________________________________________ vss2svn-users mailing list Project homepage: http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user _______________________________________________ vss2svn-users mailing list Project homepage: http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user