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Thanks.. worked.. I now have a clean slate.. Appreciated.. -Westside "Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote in message news:4qtao01dst0psoqd0oi1m4i9um17lijbe3 at 4ax.com... > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:31:23 -0800, "WestSide" > <xpurplekushx at yahoo.com> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Thanks for the help.. your solution makes sense.. > > > >However, my problem is that I have deleted the repository on the server, and > >so when I try to do "CVS | Release" it does not work, because there is no > >valid repository on the server. > > > >I am new to CVS and had installed CVSNT and then removed it from the server, > >etc. In all this process, the local files on my local machine that > >originally were connected to repository, are sort of left "orphaned" because > >there is no valid repository to connect to through tortiose. > > > >Is there any way to get rid of that green overlay on my files if I have no > >valid CVS repository on the server? > > > > Just use Windows Explorer and go to these folders. > Then delete the subfolders named CVS that existy in each sandbox > folder. Now your local files are no longer a CVS sandbox, just ordiary > folders with sourcefiles inside... > This is a procedure that is OK to do in two circumstances: > 1) With the files committed you can even delete the whole sandbox if > you like. All can be resurrected from the server at a later time. > > 2) The CVS server has disapperared altogether. In this case it makes > no sense keeping the sandbox state any longer. This is what you have. > > > /Bo > (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)