Is there workaround for when TFPT is “unable to determine the workspace” and refreshing the cache does not work?

Question

I\'m having trouble getting TFPT.exe to work at all, even after trying to refresh the cached workspace settings per the usual advice on the internet. See below for a log repres

Answer 1

In my case, here is how I arrived to this problem (error message "Unable to determine the workspace"), and how I solved it.

Arrival:

I had some code. The development moved from the branch in which I worked (lets call it Branch1) to Branch2. I had to continue under Branch2. I shelved the changes, re-mapped my development folder to Branch2, opened Developer Command Prompt for VS2012 and ran the following command

tfpt unshelve /migrate /source:"$/path/Branch1" /target:"$/path/Branch2" "Shelveset Name"

Here I've got the "Unable..." message

Solution:

In my case, the problem was that when I opened command prompt, its working directory was c:\program files\...\...Visual Studio 11.... It worked (migrating shelveset) when I changed working directory to the directory of the Branch itself: c:\MyBranchFolder