Opening a Saved or Exported View Compare/Merge Session

You can save or export a View Compare/Merge session to a shortcut file (.vcms or .vcmx), and later restore the session for more work.

  • If you save the session to a .vcms file, you can open it again on the same computer.
  • If you export the session to a .vcmx file, you can move the file to a different computer and restore the session there.

Note: The .vcmx file contains more information than a .vcms file, such as merged result files.

To open a previously saved or exported View Compare/Merge session, do the following:

  1. Open the StarTeam Cross-Platform Client.

  2. Choose Project > Open Shortcut.

    The Open dialog box displays.

  3. Select VCM Session (*.vcmx;*.vcms) in the Files of Type field.
  4. Browse to the location of the session file you want to restore and click Open.