Visual-SourceSafe error - unable to finish writing a file - visual-sourcesafe

We use Nant to automate our builds. Everything was working fine until about a week ago when the rains caused our power to go out and the build server had to be re-booted. Now, we get the following error whenever we attempt a build:
<internalerror>
<type>System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException</type>
<message><![CDATA[SourceSafe was unable to finish writing a file. Check your available disk space, and ask the administrator to analyze your SourceSafe database.]]></message>
<stacktrace><![CDATA[ at SourceSafeTypeLib.VSSItemClass.Get(String& Local, Int32 iFlags)
at NAnt.Contrib.Tasks.SourceSafe.GetTask.ExecuteTask()]]></stacktrace>
</internalerror>
We ran the Analyze utility on the VSS database and there appears to be plenty of room on the build server, but no luck. Any ideas? I'm at a loss.

My problem was that the current file was empty... I wrote a comment on it and everything worked ok

Ok, here is the resolution. It turns out that somehow, the version of an app.config file that was referenced in the build script was corrupted (all the previous versions, actually), which caused the VSSGet error. Updating the version to the current version fixed the errror.

I had this issue when I tried to migrate a Source Safe database to Subversion, using VSS2SVN.
This error is related to the message
There is a diff chain size mismatch in file '' (bdaaaaaa) at version (versions earlier than that version can no longer be retrieved from the database).
that may be reported by the Source Safe tool analyze.exe.
If you look into the history of the file and try to Get a version that is older than the one reported by analyze.exe, the message of this question is shown.
Microsoft provided hotfix KB927887 for cases where this was caused by XML files toggling BOM inclusion, but I did not try to apply it.
See also Message: SourceSafe was unable to finish writing a file

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Upon looking into the error, we have noticed that starting as of a single check-in every code update has resulted in files being replaced with the contents of other files, ranging from project files to binary executable files (presumably assembly DLLs), rather than the expected content which is still present on our local development machines.
I don't have admin access to the servers myself, but am looking for ideas on possible causes and/or fixes for our team to investigate.
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Clear the Application Tier cache.
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I recently rolled out an update for Jenkins to kick off sonar-scanner on version 5.6 of SonarQube. I'm not using the plugin, just a command line call of the sonar scanner from the directory where the sonar-project.properties file resides.
So far all of the developers have followed the same steps, and configure the properties file for their services and works great except in a few cases. Two developers have had a strange issue, when an error message prompts:
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# UI Settings for sonar
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sonar.projectVersion=SOMEVERSION
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This isn't about your encoding or file contents, but about permissions. The user that runs the scan doesn't have Execute Analysis permissions on the projects in question.
And to create new projects with the first analysis, the user must also have the Create Projects permission.
When encountering this issue, I loaded the file in Notepad++ which told me the file was saved under some strange encoding visual studio gave text files. I fixed it by switched the encoding to UTF-8 which resolved the problem. This probably should be handled better in Sonar!

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I'm currently attempting to fix build issues which occured once i tried to update some component. they told me i need to update some references. Oddly enough i now get these issues:
Now i'll just add some text so someone comming from google can find the potential answer as well:
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Deleting and restoring nugetpackages, in hopes the nuget install script supplied these files,
Uninstall+Install Support Package in Android SDK Manager
Deleting files, in hope they are just temporary references and are pulled by xamarin if they are missing.
Neither one of those attempts worked out sadly.
Any ideas?
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I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. I am running code that includes several large queries accessing large amounts of data. On Friday when I debugged my code it was working properly with no errors. Upon returning today when I run the code 9 out of 10 times I get this error:
[DB2/NT64] SQL0952N Processing was cancelled due to an interrupt. SQLSTATE=57014
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Unable to open an ra_local session to URL
Unable to open repository 'file://file/directory/project/folder'
Berkeley DB error for filesystem '//file/directory/db' while opening
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of course I have changed a couple of things in the error message, like the actuall directories we have here, but that is all I have changed.
the error occurred when I attempted to check something out, it then hung up, and i had to close it, then after this, it has been giving us this error.
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Our Admin tried using the svnadmin to repair the system, and when it told him it was complete it spit up a similar error once again. any one out there in tv land have any ideas what might be the problem here?
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Update: Latest releases of TortoiseSVN already bundle svnadmin and most other useful command-line utilities, thus you no longer need Slik SVN.

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