Visual-studio – The project file has been moved renamed or is not on your computer

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I get this error when I try to load a VS 2008 project from TFS source control:

The project file has been moved, renamed or is not on your computer

After I click OK the project says "unavailable".
What is the problem? How do I resolve this? I never had this problem before. Some blogs said to delete the .suo file but I can't locate the .suo file. I deleted the entire project on my local computer so that the next time it opens it will create a new one, but I still get same error.

Best Answer

What typically helps to fix it is deleting the Solution User Options aka "SUO".

VS up to 2013

In the older VS it is stored as a "hidden" SolutionName.suo in the same folder as the main .sln file.

VS2015 or later

In VS2015 the same data was moved to a "hidden" .vs folder under the same folder as the main .sln file.

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