Constantly get The local data store is currently in use by another operation when working on small projects

Question

I use Visual Studio Team Services to store the source code of my projects as I work on them, I love the service, especially that it is free, but I have been running into the big

Answer 1

Lately I started to get same error message and Visual Studio started to work very slow with TFS and nuget. I have tried repair and uninstall but not solve the problem. At the and it was so painfully slow that I cannot continue working. (Expanding one item on source control explorer takes 10 seconds)

Here is my story and how my problem be solved:

I was mapped tfs folders separately not to get whole TFS because there are lots of irrelevant documents. After trying lots of fix suggestion, I thought this might be the problem because I did this separate mapping first time while I have been using TFS. I generally map and get all items at once and never met this issue before.

I removed all mappings and it was like magic. Error is gone, slow TFS source control is gone and it is rocket fast now. Just to be in a safe side I also delete my workspaces and create a new one and get all TFS items at once.

Answer 2

I did as mentioned below and TFS started working fine

1. Close all the VS instances
2. Go to: C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_46af8b8e
3. Delete the privateregistry.bin file
4. Reopen the project solution

Above worked for me.

Answer 3

Had the same problem,can be fixed in 3 quick steps:

1. Remove current Workspace: Source Control Explorer->Work Space ListBox->workspaces... and remove the workspace.

   - Make sure that all pending changes are checked in

2. Delete Workspace local folder.

   - Its Better to delete the folder entirely.If eventually keeping some folders make sure to delete all $tf folders (hidden folders inside the workspace folder)

3. Remap the projects you need ( the less the better )

Hopes that helps.