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Reputation: 1943

How to remove another user's TFS workspace mapping

I'm using Visual Studio 2010.

Some time ago I was using my ABC TFS user to connect to TFS and mapped some folders on my local drive.

Now my previous user ABC is gone and I was given a new tfs user XYZ to connect to TFS.

So I mapped a remote folder to my existing local folder, but I got the following error:

The working folder 'Some_Local_Path' is already in use by the workspace WORKSPACE_NAME:USER_NAME on computer 'MACHINE_NAME'

So I've tried to remove the cache folder content at:
C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\3.0\Cache
But afterwards the same error still occurs.

I've also tried to run the TFS command:
tf workspaces /remove:*
to delete the cache for all worksapaces, but I still get the same error.

When I try to edit my workspace in Visual Studio, it shows source control and local folders for my current TFS user XYZ. But what I actually want is to remove the folder bindings of the workspace for my previous TFS user ABC.

How can I achieve that?

Upvotes: 71

Views: 131566

Answers (10)

LarryG
LarryG

Reputation: 687

I had a similar issue and could not install the third-party program 'TFS Sidekick' because I'm using Visual Studio 2017.

I was unable to delete the workspace, because tfvc kept telling me it could not find the workspace.

So I used the following command to list all of my workspaces and the owners:
tf workspaces /computer:* /owner:*

Then I've tried:
tf workspace /delete myWorkSpaceName;Bob Smith

But I got the following error:
TF14061: The workspace myWorkSpaceName;Bob Smith does not exist.

That is the exactly the workspace and owner name I was getting from the original workspace listing mentioned above.

The final solution was to ask for more information using the XML format:
tf workspaces /computer:* /owner:* /format:xml > c:\temp\workspaces.xml
Note: Outputing to a text file as above is optional, but highly recommended.

This gave me additional the workspace owner details and one of them was a long name with a GUID and the account email.

The following command finally worked:
tf workspace /delete myWorkSpaceName;aabe3ec12-1254-4956-b1ee-3fb26506931e\[email protected]

It asked me for confirmation and it finally deleted my orphaned workspace.

Upvotes: 55

WilliamK
WilliamK

Reputation: 1772

💡 Pay attention at the commands tf vc workspaces and tf vc workspace.

For listing use workspaces (plural):

tf workspaces /collection:https://your.tf.server.url/tfs/collection /computer:* /owner:*

For deleting, use workspace (singular):

tf workspace /collection:"https://your.tf.server.url/tfs/collection" /delete buildName;owner /noprompt

Upvotes: 0

Bijan Ghofranian
Bijan Ghofranian

Reputation: 11

I had the same issue that after deleting the workspace using tf delete command, I was getting the error that the workspace was already mapped! Then I found out tf delete workspace command leaves the job incomplete so you have to also delete it from the cache manually as was suggested here:

https://community.dynamics.com/365/financeandoperations/b/dynamicsaxinsightbyanas/posts/d365fo-the-path-is-already-mapped-in-workspace

Upvotes: 1

Divyanshu mehta
Divyanshu mehta

Reputation: 319

1.First we will check the list of workspaces from VS 2015 Developer command prompt,

Ex - tf workspaces /owner:*

2.Now we will get the xml format from VS 2017 Developer command prompt which will have ‘owner id’ for the particular workspace,

Example 1 - tf.exe workspaces /owner:* /computer:ComputerName /collection:https://YOUR-TFS-URL.visualstudio.com /format:xml

3.We can now delete the workspace for the particular user,

Example 1- Tf workspace /delete ComputerName;[email protected] /server:"https://URL.visualstudio.com"

OR

Example 2 - Tf workspace /delete ComputerName;1e178c77-bb8b-6f05-bf99 /server:https://URL.visualstudio.com

(Where 1e178c77-bb8b-6f05-bf99 is ID of the workspace which you get from Step 2 XML format)

4.Again we will check the list of workspaces from VS 2015 Developer command prompt,

Ex - tf workspaces /owner:*

Upvotes: 3

Naga
Naga

Reputation: 1

I end up in same issue after the person who setup Jenkins left our company. He had setup workspace and TFS checkout was using alternate authentication. As his credentials are removed from msdn, TFS checkout started choking.

Following LarryG's solution helped to remove the workspace. Only difference is, I just used the windows live ID of the person, who left the company.

tf workspace /delete myWorkSpaceName;windowsliveID

Upvotes: 0

Vikram Gharge
Vikram Gharge

Reputation: 187

Steps to delete workspaces from the TFS server:

  1. Open Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt.

  2. Goto Program Files (x86) folder, depending on the installed visual studio select "Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0" folder. Here this I have selected it because I am having Visual Studio 2013 installed on my machine. Add this path in the command prompt. Add like "cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE"

    Note: If you have an access of the TFS server from the network then you can try it from any machine where Visual Studio has been installed or from the same TFS machine server if it has Visual Studio there.

  3. Check a list of workspaces under specific collection. Type below command to get the workspaces under one collection.

    cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\tf workspaces /server:http://{TFSServername}:8080/tfs/{CollectionName} /owner:*

    • In the above command replace {TFSServername} this with your TFS servername or the Server IP.
    • In the above command replace {CollectionName} this with actual TFS Collection Name.

  4. How to remove workspaces under specific collection. Check below command for the same.

    • tf workspace /server:http://{TFSServername}:8080/tfs//{CollectionName} /delete “{workspacename};{owner}”
    • Replace {workspacename} this with "Workspacename” which is there in the list of workspaces.

    • Replace {CollectionName} this with TFS Collection Name.

      E.g. tf workspace /server:http://{TFSServername}:8080/tfs//{CollectionName} /delete {Enter Exact Workspacename};{Enter ExtactOwnerName}

Upvotes: 1

David Goedecke
David Goedecke

Reputation: 481

If you have administrative rights to the collection you can use the TF command located in the Visual Studio\Common7\IDE directory to do this without having to install another tool.

First list the workspaces associated with the user:

TF workspaces /collection:"http://tfsserver:8080/tfs/collection_name" /owner:owner_id

This will return the list of workspaces owned by the user and computer they are associated with

To delete a named workspace:

TF workspace /delete workspacename;owner_id /collection:"http://tfsserver:8080/tfs/collection_name"

Upvotes: 48

MrHinsh - Martin Hinshelwood
MrHinsh - Martin Hinshelwood

Reputation: 23434

You need to get your TFS administrator to delete the workspace if you have no access to the account.

You may be able to do it by calling "tf workspace" with the explicit user specified, but you need "manage other users workspace" permission. TF Sidekicks uses the same commands so would require the same permission. It is a TFS admin productivity tool.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y901w7se(v=vs.100).aspx

You can use:

tf workspace /delete "WORKSPACENAME;PREVIOUSUSERACCOUNT"

Upvotes: 62

Reza
Reza

Reputation: 19843

First of all you need to install TFS Sidekick (you can download it from http://www.attrice.info/cm/tfs/) In installation phase choose Integrated with IDE mode

Then a new menu will be added to Visual Studio as below

Menus -> Tools -> TeamFoundation Sidekick

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Then open workspace sidekick Search for the 'ABC' user and then you can delete his workspace

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Upvotes: 17

Giorgi Nakeuri
Giorgi Nakeuri

Reputation: 35780

  1. Open Source Control Explorer(View->Other Windows->Source Control Explorer)
  2. On toolbar pane there will be Workspace combo. Choose from that combo Workspacess..
  3. Edit
  4. Remove

Upvotes: 4

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