>>>Would you happen to know if there is a similar fix for VSS 5?
>>
>>I haven't heard of one: are you running the Visual Studio 97 SP3?
>
>No Idea!.. this is all managed by someone I have never met (who probably left
>3 years ago)
>
>But we do get this problem.. it goes very slowly when we get deleted items in
>any of the VSS folders.
>
>Thanks anyway
>
>Will

Well, my standard advice for VSS is "make sure you properly maintain the database". Do you do the things the manual recommends, like running ANALYZE.EXE, or do you just use it, like I did before I started working here? :-)