Can't delete files from visual studio project

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Can't delete files from visual studio project



Whenever I try to delete (or even exclude) any file from my VS2015 C++ project, I get the following message:



File '...' cannot be removed. The most likely reason is that the file is under source code control and cannot be removed at this time.



Trying to search for this error message gives no results anywhere - am I the only one that has ever got it?



I use perforce, and all the files are checked out, so VS should not know anything about version control.



The only solution I can find is to remove the files from vcxproj file manually, which is very tedious.



Update: the problem seems to be with Perforce plugin. Disabling it allows me to remove files again. This is strange, because I never configured it for this specific project. I also tried to switch source control to None, but it kept resetting every time I restart VS.




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I just ran into this issue with Visual Studio 2017. I did some pretty extensive troubleshooting, and found a workaround:


File / Open Connection to a Perforce Depot...


Perforce Source Control


"Solution is not under your client's root folder"



Navigate to:



Tools / Options / Source Control / Perforce - General


Tools / Options / Source Control / Perforce - General



...and uncheck this option to suppress the annoying warning dialog from step 3 that would otherwise appear every time you open that solution:



Warn if solution is outside workspace root


Warn if solution is outside workspace root



Now, you should be able to remove files again without P4VS interfering. (Fair warning: This workaround may have other side effects that I don't know about, but it has worked for me so far.)



Nothing worked for me so I just opened the project file in a text editor and manually removed the offending files. At some point my build target had changed as well, so a possible reason for this happening was I was trying to remove the files while a different build target was selected to when they were added.






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