"Access to the path is denied." when attempting to check in files to TFS

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edgett

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In early January I began encountering an error similar to "E:\Websites\Stage\mywebsite\somefile.ascx: Access to the path is denied" on a multitude of my local files when attempting to check them in. The files it is failing on are all sorts of files, PNG, ASPX, CONFIG, etc.

I am using Visual Studio 2013 for Web (Update 4) and the visualstudioonline.com TFS.

The files are stored on my Mac's data volume. I can manually open, manipulate, and save any of the files that error so I do not believe it is truly a permissions issues.

I ran a powershell script on the folder Get-ChildItem -Include *.* -Recurse -Path 'E:\Websites\Stage' | select fullname,isreadonly and all the files return 'False' under theisreadonly column. No errors are returned.

This setup had worked for months but suddenly it began giving me problems. I opened a ticket with Microsoft, who spent about three weeks looking into this issue.

If I move the files to the C drive of the VM, the errors go away. It appears an update to Parallels in late 2014/very early 2015 broke the ability to check-in files from a Mac drive.

Does anyone have a timeframe of when this might be resolved?
 
I had this same problem and had to go through extraordinary pain to move the source files. Is a fix coming soon?
 
Looks in my case the same and a result of upgrading MAC OS Version. Definitely not an Permission problem from my perspective.
Question: has someone already opened a ticket on this or someone solved the issue here?
thanks
Pet.
 
Wow, this is ridiculous, this issues is over 1 year old. I found this post but I had posted this last week https://forum.parallels.com/threads/visual-studio-tfs-check-in-fails-with-access-denied.336835/
The only "solution" I found was to change my workspace from Local to Server. Depending on your situation this may or may not be an option for you (google TFS local vs Server workspace to see the issues). I am 99% of the time online so this works although it is not ideal. Seems silly that Local workspaces work with VMware Fusion, but in general performance of VS is way, way better in Parallels so we are all stuck.
 
I recently switched from a PC to a Mac with parallels. I could check-in fine at first, but now I'm getting this same error. I found a work around by saving the project on an external hard drive. Also not ideal, but it works.
 
Hi All,
I have a solution for you on this.
After a session with Parallels support, they had no clue, but, I did get the info that when parallels is accessing files on the mac filesystem, it's doing so as a network file share, not as a 'local' device. A bit of googling discovered that Visual Studio does not support TFS when files are on a network share. If it works sometimes, then we get lucky, but it's not supported officially.
The solution was to move my workspaces to the windows local filesystem within the VM.
Hope this helps a few people! But hoping more that Microsoft will complete their implementation of VS for mac so I won't need a VM at all !
Tony
 
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