How can I remove/fix a ghost workspace

Question

Somehow I have ended up with a \"ghost\" workspace. It doesn\'t show up in Visual Studio under Manage Workspaces. When I connect to VS Team Services and open source control expl

Answer 1

You can use tf workspaces command to get detailed XML info for all workspaces, including owner uniqe id and owner alias user names:

tf workspaces /owner:* /format:xml

Sample output:

  
  
    
  
  2019-01-01T01:02:03.456+00:00
  
    SERVER\Name
    Name
    Some Name
  

You can then try some of the OwnerAliases as owner to delete workspace or directly use owneruniq:

tf workspace /delete wrkspacename;12345678-90ab-cdef-1234-567890abcdef