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Hello all, I am trying to work on a project in Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Earlier, the project was saved on a network location. Its an opensource project, I browsed the original code for some time, compiled and ran it. Then I deleted it from its original location, and then redownloaded it into a new location on my desktop. Then I opened Visual Studio and removed the reference to the project from the recently used Projects. However, when I open the project again, I see that it references some old project paths, from the network share. e.g. Z:\mb\mb, when the new project is actually stored in C:\users\me\MightBox. Example error: Access to the path Z:\mb\mb\app\MightyBoxApp\bin\Debug is denied EDIT: Forgot to mention, I have used a grep -nri "z:\\" * and there are not matches in the directory, hence it is almost certain that VS is somehow caching the information.

I would be really grateful if somebody could help me as I'm spending a lot of time on it. Thanks.

EDIT: The problem was that my application had cached its earlier location and it was NO FAULT OF VISUAL STUDIO. I repeat, there is no caching of any sorts happening here in Visual Studio. Actually, the application was caching the location of its last run and hence the problems.

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Try opening up the following folder and see if it has the information you want to delete

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio

Certain project types, web IIRC, store some information in that location for certain projects. If that doesn't have the data you may also want to try HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0

JaredPar
Oh. The problem was that my application had cached its earlier location and it was NO FAULT OF VISUAL STUDIO. I repeat, there is no caching of any sorts happening here in Visual Studio. Is there any way I can delete this question so that people don't get misled. Thanks for the answer. Only because of this did I manage to figure out that the app cached its earlier location.
@user247077 I think the best solution is to just update your question with this comment.
JaredPar