Accurev: Cannot remove workspace/stream

Question

I'm trying to remove a workspace (or clone it to look like the parent, but I can't seem to do either). When I try, however, I get this message: Cannot remove workspace test_workspace, because it has a non-empty default group.

From what I've read, it means that there are active files (as shown by the 3 little green dots to the right of stream). I've tried everything to get those to go away but they just seem to stick around and therefore result in me being unable to remove the stream.

Alternatively, I could completely wipe out the stream and replace with the parent version, but I can't seem to do that either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You need to purge the active files in this workspace.

Open the workspace and click on the "Default Group" filter -> select the files -> right click -> revert to backed.

If no files appear in the "Default Group" filter, click on the stranded filter and do the same as above to revert those files.

If you are using AccuRev 6.x, click on the outgoing mode and click on "Member" and "Stranded" to get a list of the active files.

Once you have done that, you can remove the workspace.