Uh oh! There's nothing worse than a problem with your source control database. Even though we all consistently back those up, right? Yeah, it's still scary. So, for anyone who runs into this problem, and you are thinking of using the
Analyze6.exe Utility - don't bother. That is, don't bother for the following symptoms. For some reason I had 3 files that had a zero length name that I couldn't delete, rename, or anything else. This utility was supposed to fix everything by running "analyze -f x:\vss\data" from a command window. No dice. But, what DID work was using the admin utility to archive the files. Crazy, but true.