What is the quickest way to delete a project from a project collection?
We split our large (1.3TB) project collection which had about 66 projects including one large (260GB) project into two collections. Everything went fine deleting the smaller (up to 30GB) projects until we got to the largest one.
The deletion process would fail via the GUI and tfsdelete command even after increasing the timeout to 10 hours! When we increased the timeout (we did so gradually - initially to 30 min then 4 hours and ultimately 10) it failed with the following message on version control:
[00:40:17.757] ++ Executing - Operation: ProjectDelete, Group: ProjectDelete.TfsSourceControl [00:40:17.757] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [00:40:17.757] Executing step: Delete the team project data from Version Control [00:40:17.757] Executing step: 'Delete the team project data from Version Control' VersionControl.DeleteTeamProject (2 of 11) [01:40:21.473] [Error] TF246018: The database operation exceeded the timeout limit and has been cancelled. Verify that the parameters of the operation are correct. [01:40:21.647] Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.DatabaseOperationTimeoutException: TF246018: The database operation exceeded the timeout limit and has been cancelled. Verify that the parameters of the operation are correct. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The wait operation timed out
Thanks in advance!
