>Craig,
>
>Normally that's true, but in this case Mark (I think it was Mark, I've kind of lost track of this thread) is suggesting marking local files read-write manually.
>
>>>Hmmm... This makes me really nervous. It will only be a matter of time before
>you forget that you're not working with a checked-out copy. The next thing you know you'll make a bunch of changes then blow them away when you check out or update the files.
>>>
>>>>>>>When attempting to build a project, I get the error "Cannot Update Cursor". Any ideas on what this is?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>As other told you, something is read-only. I share the following one-line file "writeall.bat" in every source safe folder with a vfp project:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>attrib -r +a *.* /s
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This makes every file in the project writeable.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>- Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>that also removes the 'protection' that source safe adds to your project.
>>>>
>>>>true, you can now edit any piece of the project. however, the docs in source safe project are protected. the stuff in your working directory is now editable, which can be an advantage. for example, you can muck around putting suspends in a form while debugging. once the problem is found, check the form out and fix it, with no worries of having forgotten a suspend or assert.
>>
>>Nope. Everything that isn't checked out is read-only, so that won't happen.


Then the danger exists. He's overridding one of the things that source control does for you....essentially making source control somewhat useless.