SourceSafe - How to Recover Files to a Label

9/02/2017

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BACKUP ANY CHECKED OUT OR NEW FILES, AS I HAVEN’T READ ALL OF THE IMPLICATIONS Open the SourceSafe GUI Put the cursor on “Src” Right-click Select Show History Click the LABELS ONLY BOX Select a FROM date, for example, 3/1/2002 Select a TO date, for example, 8/26/2002 Press OK Highlight the Desired label name Click on GET NOTE: CLICK ON THE READ “help” button PRIOR to doing the get. I haven’t read the implications, but I imagine that SourceSafe OVERLAYS all the Src Files and directories on your “P” drive Build the Project