How to remove a TFS Workspace Mapping

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I had a project in tfs within a team project then we moved the project to a different location in another team project   I had configured Jenkins to connect to the team project and build my solution but when I changed the settings to connect to the new tfs team project  it gives me the below error    workspace     C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 10 0 Common7 IDE tf exe  workspace -new Hudson-ProjectName1-Build-MASTER domain1 username1 -noprompt -server http   domain-eg net 8080 tfs newteamproject          The path D  jenkins jobs ProjectName1-Build workspace is already mapped in workspace Hudson-ProjectName1-Build-MASTER  http   domain-eg net 8080 tfs oldteamproject     So the above shows that there is an existing workspace so I ran the below command to remove it  tf workspace -delete Hudson-ProjectName1-Build-MASTER domain1 username1 -noprompt -server http   domain-eg net 8080 tfs oldteamproject   and it prompted that the workspace has been removed but I m still getting the same error   I also checked whether the mapping has been removed or not by running the below command   tf workspace -server http   domain-eg net 8080 tfs oldteamproject Hudson-ProjectName1-Build-MASTER   but it says the workspace doesn t exist as expected   So  I thought it might be caching it somewhere and ran the below command   tf workspaces  remove    collection http   domain-eg net 8080 tfs oldteamproject   and it said  No workspace in the cache matches   from server http   domain-eg net 8080 tfs oldteamproject   so I d guess it s not even cached   So what s causing the error and how to resolve it

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I ran into the same problem  and was able to fix it by manually deleting all the files in the TFS cache  located here    LocalAppData  Microsoft Team Foundation 3 0 Cache   or 4 0  5 0  etc

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I managed to remove the mapping using the  newowner command as suggested here   How can I regain access to my Team Foundation Server Workspace   The command opened an Edit Workspace windows where I removed the mapping  Afterwards I deleted the workspace I didn t need

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You can also remove a tfs mapping by simply editing your  sln file and removing the GlobalSection element for the tfs binding

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The error is genuine  You might have created workspace with same name on different machine  Now you may have changed machine having different machine name   So here is work-around that will definitely work Following is work-around    Go to  Team-Explorer  Go to  Source-Control  Go to Workspace drop-down Click on  Workspaces      A pop-up window will appear Click on  Show remote workspaces  Now delete the workspace which is conflicting and you can proceed your work

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Team Explorer   Source Control Explorer

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Following are the steps to remove mapping of a project from TFS    1  Click on View Button    2  Open Team Explorer   3  Click on Source Control   4  Right click on your project Directory   5  Click on Remove Mapping   6  Finally Delete the Project form  local directory

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First download and install Team Explorer plugin in your system and then go to the Source Control Explorer  In the navigation pane find the Workspace field and click on Workspaces option   After clicking on Workspaces option  you will see all the workspaces that are mapped  Click on the remove button and the remove the mapping for required workspaces

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I was prompted to login to our TFS server via Visual Studio  so I used my SU account which is typically required for server access  This led to some issues  and I ended up mapping to a different folder  not realizing I had just duplicated all my stuff  At some point  Visual Studio reverted back to my regular user  I  lost  pending changes  and noticed that new pending changes were placed by in my old mapping    When I would try to remap to the new location  that the SU account was linked to  in an attempt to recover my pending changes  it would tell me it was already mapped to the SU  and I couldn t do that  but had no way of removing the map  Show remote workspaces  removing all workspaces via command line  etc revealed nothing  I then thought  what if it s actually linked to the SU user account on my computer  not the domain   I logged in as my SU locally  and sure enough  there was a workspace all setup for that user  I  removed the mapping  and was able to go back to my regular user and remap without issue   Moral of the story  perhaps another user is logged in on the same machine  which isn t visible from the currently logged in user  thus you cannot remove or even see the mappings

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If the mentioned clues are not helping you then download Team Foundation Sidekick and using that you can delete the workspaces

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File -  Source Control -  Advanced -  Workspaces -  Choose the workspace in Manage Workspaces and click  Edit  Then you can change the local folder

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Thanks for your help   Find problem workspace SELECT   FROM tbl Workspace  WHERE WorkspaceName like   xxxxx    Find desired workspace SELECT   FROM tbl Workspace  WHERE WorkspaceName like   zzzzz    Select Edit Top 200 tbl WorkingFolder then Find the problem mapping SELECT   FROM tbl WorkingFolder WHERE WorkspaceId   Problem WorkspaceId from above  Change the WorkspaceId to the desired WorkspaceId  Finally goto Project Explorer and select Remove Mapping on the project  Modify VB6 MSSCCPRJ SCC to match the desired WorkSpace

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Finally deleted ALL workspaces and started from scratch  Fixed

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You don t have to delete the entire Cache folder  you lose all settings   preferences The workspace mappings are stored in a file called    VersionControl config under the users local settings application data directory   located here in windows 7       LocalAppData  Microsoft Team Foundation x 0 Cache Volatile      where x  3 0 4 0  5 0 6 0 etc    Inside this you will find guid named folders   open each of them  manually editing the forementioned file  to remove the workspace mapping directory path will be present in mappedpaths attribute  from that local folder to the TFS server  which is no longer in usage

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None of the answers here removed my workspaces   But here is one solution that may work for you    Open up a Visual Studio command prompt Close Visual Studio first or the delete command may not delete the workspace List the workspace commands -  tf    to find the commands available to you from the version of TFS  List the workspaces -  tf workspaces Delete the workspace -  tf workspace YourWorkspace  delete

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Run tf workspaces to view current workspace mappings  Output looks like     Then run tf workspace  delete   workspace   user   Using output above  to delete workspace bi    tf workspace  delete bi James Wierzba

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All of the answers here seem to be partial answers that don t work in all cases  I think this answer will work in all cases  assuming you have proper permissions    Open up the Developer Command Prompt  In my case  I ve tested this with the Developer Command Prompt for VS 2019  Type this command  tf workspaces   Note that the results can list a couple tables with identical structure  If you only see one table  then some of the assumptions in the other answers can work for you  However  if you see two or more tables  then that Collection string is important  For our examples  we re going to assume you have two Collections  two is no different than four other than one is more tedious than the other to go through it    https   dev azure com foo and https   bar visualstudio com   With luck  you will know which one of these two you want to work with  However  if you need to cycle through them all  then you ll just have to do that one collection at a time  Each  Collection  here is the same as an  Organization  in Azure DevOps  I think    If you don t use this Collection detail  then you might see an error message      Unable to determine the source control server     Next  type this command for the collection you want to use    tf workspaces  computer    owner    collection https   dev azure com foo  This will give you a much more complete picture of what you re dealing with  This gets especially nasty if you have had multiple MSAs and Org accounts hitting this repo from the same computer  In fact  you might have multiple seemingly-identical entries  If you try to delete them based on what you currently know  it may not work  But we can get more information    Next  we re going to run the same command but append  format xml to the end of it    tf workspaces  computer    owner    collection https   dev azure com foo  format xml  This now gives you a bunch of XML with some additional properties  The ones that we likely care about the most are the Owner Aliases  This is the missing information you need to now go through and delete these workspaces  Without this additional information  it s easy to hit a wall and be stuck with an error message      Specify one workspace     Now we have all of the info we need  Given the additional OwernAliases entries  select the unique entry  or repeat if more than one  that you wish to delete and use this following command  a couple examples are listed     tf workspace  delete  collection https   dev azure com foo  MyWorkspaceName Windows Live ID John Doe hotmail com  tf workspace  delete  collection https   dev azure com foo  MyWorkspaceName John Doe  tf workspace  delete  collection https   dev azure com foo  MyWorkspaceName 2C3E8474-A39C-4785-8794-DC72F09981E6 John Doe Example com     The GUID identifies an AAD directory and the quotes are there to handle any spaces that might be in an alias  The  MyWorkspaceName  comes from your previous queries listing out the workspaces     Without this very thorough approach  it s possible that all of the other answers in this question will fail for you  While some of those efforts will clear out local workspaces  they will not clear out server workspaces  which you can still conflict with  Additionally  if you have previously used a different account things can get hairy  like if you switched from an MSA to an AAD account  And things get REALLY hairy if you have an MSA account and multiple AAD accounts all with the same email address that you have used from the same workstation  And then it gets super crazy hairy if multiple of those all used the default name for the workspace  your computer s hostname  In my case  I had four workspaces all with the same Workspace name  Owner name  and Computer name  i e  the first query without the XML formatting had 4 identical records       I do not know if there s a more graphcial way to manage these than this  I have looked and not yet found a better way than this

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If mapping is proper then you can undo checkin your changes  if you really want to change folder name  Alternatively if you want to remove mapping then in Visual Studio go to File- gt  Source Control- gt  Advanced- gt  Workspaces- gt  Edit Now you can click on appropriate path and remove mapping

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Follow these steps to remove mapping from TFS    Open team explorer Click Source Control Right click on you project Click on Remove Mapping

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Update 2019-01-23  If you   re repeatedly getting the following error The workspace wkspaceEg does not exist    even after employing the correct username  wkspcOwnerDomain wkspcOwnerUsername  in the tf workspace command  e g    tf workspace  wkspaceEg wkspcOwnerDomain wkspcOwnerUsername   collection http   tfs example com 8080 tfs collectionEg  login TFSUsername TFSPassword  then the tf workfold command may help fix it  See this question   If even that doesn   t work and you   re unable unwilling to use TFS Sidekicks  proceed to the risky last-ditch option below     I   m using TFS 2012  I tried everything that was suggested online  deleted cache folder  used the workspaces dropdown  tf workspaces  remove    cleared credentials from Control Panel  IE  etc   Nothing worked  I believe my workspace got corrupted somehow  Finally  I went to the TFS database and ran the following queries  That worked  Of course be very careful when messing with the database  take backups  etc   The database is called Tfs  lt  lt your TFS collection name gt  gt   Ignore the Tfs Configuration MSSQL database  I m not sure but if you don t have a Tfs  lt  lt your TFS collection name gt  gt  database  settings might be in the Tfs DefaultCollection database  Mapping is stored in tbl WorkingFolder LocalItem     Find correct workspace   SELECT WorkspaceId    FROM tbl Workspace ORDER BY WorkspaceName    View the existing mapping   SELECT LocalItem    FROM tbl WorkingFolder WHERE WorkspaceId    lt  lt WorkspaceId from above gt  gt     Update mapping   UPDATE tbl WorkingFolder SET LocalItem    D  Legacy 00 TFS Source Workspaces teamProjEg  WHERE   LocalItem   NULL might work too but I haven t tried it   WorkspaceId    lt  lt WorkspaceId from above gt  gt

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Please follow the below steps   Ctrl   Run    Copy and Past   LocalAppData  Microsoft Team Foundation   You will get different version of TFS e g   Click on each folder and you will get     Now Delete all data in these folder   Reopen the Visual studio   Thanks

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From VS    Open Team Explorer Click Source Control Explorer In the nav bar of the tool window there is a drop down labeled  Workspaces    Extend it and click on the  Workspaces     option  yeah  a bit un-intuitive  The  Manage Workspaces  window comes up  Click edit and you can add   remove   edit your workspace     From VS on a different machine  You don t need VS to be on the same machine as the enlistment as you can edit remote enlistments  In the dialog that comes up when you press the  Workspaces     item there is a check box stating  Show Remote Workspaces  - just tick that and you ll get a list of all your enlistments     From the command line  Call  tf workspace  from a developer command prompt  It will bring up the  Manage Workspaces  directly

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