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SourceSafe Tree Traversal

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By: Dave Goodall

Down-tree traversal requires that you start at the root project (aaaaaaaa), open the '.a' file to find the current extension of the data file, open that, search the child records in the data file for the required file, and then repeat the process.

If a child project record is marked as 'deleted' then that project and the projects and files below it are logically deleted. They exist physically in the tree until they are purged.

Because files and projects below the 'logical' delete point are not individually marked as such, it is necessary to traverse back up tree to the root to find out if any parent has been logically deleted to determine if a file is active or deleted

Up-Tree traversal requires that you use the parent project reference to open that file and so on back to the root.

If the file is shared there nay be more than one parent project reference and thus more than one path back to the root