Question

I have several projects in TFS which visually appear in the directory hierarchy as grayed out. When I browse within the projects in Visual Studio 2010/Source Control/TFS 2010, I notice that all of their contents have a Latest value of "Not downloaded". Normally, I have only seen Latest values of "Yes" or "No".

• I have tried all of the varieties of "Get latest" that I know, but I am always alerted that "All files are up to date".
• If I try to "Check out for edit", I am not allowed.
• When I observe the properties of these grayed out files, they always say Workspace Version = "Not applicable".

How do I fix TFS so that I can download and check out the projects again? My suspicion is that my workspace is messed up, but I do not know what to do to restore/reconfigure it.

Answer 1

I was able to remap the directory to fix my issue. To do this, I

• selected (right-clicked) the branch that included all of my code, and selected “Remove Mapping…”
• renamed the folder I was mapped to within TFS (you can delete it as well, but I renamed just to keep it during this experimental process)
• created a new folder with the original name of the branch I was mapped to in the beginning, and
• selected (right-clicked) the branch that included all of my code, and selected “Map to Local Folder”.

This process forces a complete re-download of the entire branch. Luckily for me, my branch was only 2GB, so I was able to re-download in about 5-10 minutes.