Pesky 'ghost' workspace mappings

Hey guys,

I ran into a situation that I wanted to share. Somehow, I got Team Foundation Server - Team Explorer specifically - into a state where it believed that my desktop folder was mapped to a workspace. I had removed this workspace a long while ago.

Because of this, I could not use my desktop for any workspace mapping.

Even though Team Explorer showed that I have no workspaces, I still could not map my desktop folder.

If this ever happens to you, a good place to check is your cache; the example I show below has some system specific values, but I think you get the idea:

C:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\application data\microsoft\team foundation\1.0\cache

Some of you will know that this is the location of the work item meta-data cache. It also has the versioncontrol.config file. This is where workspace mappings are stored. If you have a ghost workspace, this is most likely the culprit.

Thanks,

Eric.

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