I've found SourceSafe and VFP to be pretty slow, but 5 minutes is quite bad. What kind of network are you using?

There are a few things you can try:

- If you have a virus checker running on your machine, try disabling it or at least setting it to check only executables and not all files.

- Make sure you've installed the latest service pack for VFP and for SourceSafe (you can download or order Visual Studio Service Pack 3 which fixes both products from www.microsoft.com/vstudio/sp).

- There's a tool included with SourceSafe that will clean up your SourceSafe database. You should run that.

- If you have a lot of projects in your VSS database, try creating a new database and just adding your new project to it.

- VSS 6.0 is due out next week. I've heard that its performance is much better than 5.0.

- I sometimes run two instances of VFP. One for development where I keep the project open all the time and the other to test my application.

Good luck. Hope this helps!

>We are using (trying to use) Visual SourceSafe, and it´s killing us with its slowness; doing MODIFY PROJECT takes 5 minutes or more.
>What´s more, we are converting a thousand-module project from FP 2.6, and currently we have only about a hundred modules in the VFP project now; we dread working with VSS when all the modules are in the project!
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>Has anybody else found this "speed"? And does anybody know a solution?
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>Thanks!