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I have a perforce workspace root set to:

D:\Perforce_windows_workspace\depot

I need my perforce workspace root set to:

D:\depot

Is this going confuse p4v? Not finding any solid examples to go off of. Thanks so much in advance!

Daniel Allison
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Changing the workspace root is fine, but you need to make sure to move the physical folder at the same time you change the Root in the workspace spec. Perforce stores its notion of local paths relative to the Root, so it will indeed get confused if the definition of the root changes but the filesystem locations don't, or vice versa.

Samwise
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  • Ok, so I would move the physical folder and change the Root in the workspace spec. How do I this at the same time. Do I move all the folders in depot into Perforce_windows_workspace, and rename Perforce_windows_workspace folder to depot and then edit the p4v workspace in the application? What steps to carry this out? – Daniel Allison Nov 03 '21 at 18:35
  • Doesn't matter what order you do those two things in, just don't do anything else that touches the workspace (e.g. try to sync/submit/check out) in between. – Samwise Nov 03 '21 at 18:36
  • I dragged my workspace root folder depot into D:\ and deleted Perforce_windows_workspace from D:\ drive. Then went into perforce application and right clicked on the Workspace and chose Edit Workspace. And changed my Workspace Root from D:\Perforce_windows_workspace\depot to D:\depot. I got a popup that asked 'Copy latest version of all mapped files to new root directory?'. I chose 'Copy' and it worked! Thanks so much!! – Daniel Allison Nov 03 '21 at 20:55