I'm trying to clean up a project in VSS2005 so it can Built one last time for a maintenance release before moving into TFS. However, I have one file that is currently checked out to a user who no longer exists, not even in the VSS database. We don't know what changes the user made to the file, but we don't care. We just want the checkout removed.
How is this to be done? There doesn't seem to be any options for this.
Or are we just screwed with no path out of the hole?
You can log in SourceSafe Admin as admin and undo checkouts of the gone user from there.
Here you can learn more details:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/150648
https://github.com/jeffpar/kbarchive/tree/master/kb/150/Q150648